MANGALURU: The Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMFC) in Sullia has sentenced an electricity consumer to two years of simple imprisonment and imposed Rs 5,000 penalty for abusing and threatening then energy minister DK Shivakumar over phone in 2016.
Sai Giridhar Rai, a trader from Bellare in Sullia, had called the then energy minister when there was no power in Sullia on February 28, 2016. When Shivakumar asked Rai to speak to local officials, the accused verbally abused with filthy language and threatened the minister.
