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LAHORE, Jul 26 (APP):Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 504 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 300th day of grand anti-power theft campaign.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Friday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 177 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 30 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 300th 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 09 were commercial, 15 agricultural and 480 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 535,414 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 17.249 million.
During the 300 days of the grand anti-theft campaign, the spokesman mentioned, the LESCO detected pilferage on 107,955 power connections and 91,554 FIRs have been registered against electricity thieves in the relevant police stations, while 34,556 accused have so far been arrested by the police. The LESCO has so far charged a total of 120,424,168 detection units worth Rs 4,304,208,898 to all the power pilferers.