As many as 20 electric motors used for drawing water illegally were seized in the past two days, during a series of raids conducted at various places in the city.

Even after summer, Vellore city continued to witness protests and road rokosin which most of the residents pointed out that the poor supply of water was due to the usage of electric motors in the adjacent areas, for stealing water.

Following this, as per the orders of the Corporation Commissioner P Janaki Raveendran, the officials of local body conducted raids on Thursday and Friday and seized 20 electric motors  for illegally drawing water.