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LAHORE, Sep 25 (APP):On the 19th day of an anti-power theft operation, Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) got arrested 14 electricity thieves by the police and detected pilferage on 359 connections in all its work circles, the company’s spokesman confirmed to the media here Monday.
He added that FIR applications against 358 electricity thieves had been submitted in the respective police stations, out of which 178 FIRs had been registered while 14 accused had been arrested. Among detected connections, one was agricultural, 20 were commercial and 338 domestic categories and supply to all of them have been disconnected, he said, asserting that all the electricity pilferers had also been charged a total of 570,400 detection units worth Rs 28.804 million.
Sharing further details, the spokesman said that 6,482 detection units of Rs 300,000 were charged to a domestic connection on Arcade Road in Ichhra area, 5,500 detection units of Rs 287,369 to a domestic customer pilfering electricity on Natha building in new Shadbagh area, 4,365 units worth Rs 256,720 to a pilferer in Rasoolpura area, 3,800 detection units bill amounting to Rs 256,000 to another electricity thief in Islamia Colony, and 4,273 detection units of Rs 250,000 were charged to a domestic connection in Ichhra area.
The spokesman mentioned that during 19 days of anti-power theft operations, LESCO detected pilferage on a total of 8,588 connections in its domain.
The company also submitted FIR applications against 7,935 electricity pilferers, out of which 6,604 FIRs have been registered and 550 accused have so far been arrested.
All the electricity pilferers have been charged an accumulative bill of Rs 802.462 million against 18,216,296 detection units.
It should be noted that operations against electricity thieves are being conducted as per the instructions of the Ministry of Energy (Power Division) and the LESCO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider is personally supervising these operations.