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FAISALABAD, Sep 21 (APP):The Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has arrested 1,423 power pilferers from its region during the last 16 day.
Spokesman Tahir Sheikh said here on Thursday that on special instructions of Ministry of Energy (Power Division), the FESCO had launched a crackdown on electricity theft across its region comprised of eight districts including Faisalabad, Jhang, Toba Tek Singh, Chiniot, Sargodha, Mianwali, Khushab and Bhakkar.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) FESCO Engineer Bashir Ahmed had activated special teams to nab maximum power pilferers.
The teams conducted surprise checking of electricity supply meters across the region and detected electricity theft at 1,423 points where the accused were stealing power by using different modes including direct supply, tampering meter body, shunt system, etc.
He said that a fine of Rs.174.8 million was imposed on then for more than 3964000 detection units.
He further said that cases were registered against 1306 power pilferers, out of them 144 were arrested during this period.
Giving further details, he said that the FESCO teams caught 94 power pilferers during last 24 hours and imposed Rs.10.8 million on them as fine of more than 235,000 detection units.
He said that FESCO teams also recovered Rs. 142 million from the defaulter during recovery campaign.