Lahore: The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 488 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) during its anti-power theft campaign in the last 24 hour.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Monday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 139 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 28 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 t
o justice.
During last 24 hours of the anti-power theft campaign, the spokesman added, large commercial consumers were also found involved in electricity theft. Among the seized connections, 23 commercial, 01 agricultural and 464 domestic, and all of them were also disconnected and charged with detection units. All these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 292,502 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 12.670 million.