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LAHORE, Jul 23 (APP):Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 522 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 298th day of grand anti-power theft campaign.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Tuesday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 151 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 25 accused have been arrested by the respective police.
Grand 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.
On the 298th consecutive day of the anti-power theft campaign, the spokesman added, large commercial consumers were also found involved in electricity theft and all of them were also disconnected and charged with detection units. Among the seized connections 11 were commercial, 11 agricultural and 500 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 545,536 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 16.940 million.Apprising the media about some major power pilferers, he explained that LESCO charged 62,652 detection units to an electricity pilferer in Chunian; 8,284 detection units to a power pilferer in Harbanspura; 20,152 detection units to an electricity thief in Mandi Usman Wala; and 4,100 units in the form of detection bill to another customer stealing electricity in Shahdara Town.
During the 298 days of the grand anti-theft campaign, the spokesman mentioned, the LESCO detected pilferage on 106,404 power connections and 90,261 FIRs have been registered against electricity thieves in the relevant police stations, while 34,442 accused have so far been arrested by the police. The LESCO has so far charged a total of 118,700,859 detection units worth Rs 4,252,464,328 to all the power pilferers.