Commissioner chairs divisional enforcement Committee meeting

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NAWABSHAH: A review meeting of the Divisional Enforcement Committee for Electricity Theft Prevention was held in the committee room of the Commissioner's Office under the chairmanship of Nawab Shah Commissioner Shaheed Benazirabad Division Syed Muhammad Sajjad Haider.Commissioner said that FIRs should be filed against the people involved in electricity theft and non-payment of electricity bills for a long time while the collection of electricity bills should also be speeded up.Directing officers, Commissoner said that FIR's should be filed against defaulters and all those involved in electricity theft and the report should be submitted to the commissioner's office by this evening, while the dashboard should also be updated on a daily basisHe asked to share details of loss feeders and asked DC Naushehro Feroze to supervise the recovery of electricity bills in the district while ensuring the participation of SEPCO officers who did not attend the meeting in the next meeting.Addressing the meeting on t his occasion, DIG Police Shaheed Benazirabad Pervez Ahmad Chandio said that an application was made by HESCO and SEPCO to take action against the people involved in electricity theft, on which an FIR was registered by the police.He further said that all possible cooperation is being done with HESCO and SEPCO to take action against the people involved in electricity theft on behalf of the police. FIRs were filed against 42 persons involved in electricity theft from June 1, 2024 to July 22, 2024, under which 18 persons have been arrested, while FIRs will be filed against all other involved persons by this evening.He further said that the work for recovery of electricity bills is going on rapidly. In the meeting, DC Nowshahru Feroze informed about the recovery of electricity bills and prevention of theft in Nowsheru Feroze. Additional Commissioner Subhash Chandra, DC Sanghar Imran Al Hasan Khawaja, DC Nowshahro Feroze Arsalan Saleem, Additional Deputy Commissioner Shaheed Benazirabad Nawab Samir Laghari, DSP Police Abdul Hameed Jalbani and other committee members participated.