The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 428 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity.
The power theft was in all its circles of five districts-Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara- on the 136th day of the anti-power theft campaign, says the spokesperson for the company.
The LESCO spokesperson told media that the company has also submitted FIR applications against 428 electricity thieves, out of which 209 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 25 accused have been arrested.
The anti-power theft operations against electricity thieves are being conducted on the directives of the Federal Power Division and the LESCO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider is supervising these operations.
The LESCO chief vowed that the operations would continue without discrimination until the complete end of electricity theft. The electricity pilferers as well as the LESCO officers and employees who facilitate them are also being brought to justice.
The spokesperson said the large commercial consumers were also found involved in electricity theft and all of them were also disconnected. Among the seized connections were 12 commercial, 04 agricultural and 412 domestic. All the power pilferers were charged with a total of 375,770 units as detection bills amounting to Rs 14.596 million.
Apprising the media about some major power pilferers, he explained that LESCO charged detection units worth Rs 02 million to an electricity pilferer in the Allahabad area; Rs 200,000 detection bill to a customer stealing electricity in Shahdara Town Lahore, a Rs 185,600 fine to another electricity theif in Manga Mandi area, and Rs 184,826 fine to a power thief in an area of Nankana Sahib district.
The spokesperson mentioned the LESCO detected pilferage on 46,801 power connections and submitted 46,347 FIR applications against electricity thieves in the relevant police stations out of which 43,889 FIRs have been registered, while 17,312 accused have so far been arrested by the police. The LESCO has so far charged a total of 67,337,200 detection units worth Rs 2,617,421,158 to all the power pilferers.
