LAHORE: Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 383 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 151st day of grand anti-power theft campaign. LESCO spokesman told the media here Wednesday that the company had also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 169 FIRs had been registered in respective police stations, while one accused had been arrested. 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
151st 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 13 were commercial, 02 agricultural and 368 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 262,646 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 9.330 million.
Apprising the media about some major power pilferers, he explained that LESCO charged Rs 767,000 detection bill to an electricity pilferer in Aziz Park area; Rs 600,000 detection bills to another power pilferer in Lower Mall area, Rs 218,000 fine in the form of detection bills to customer stealing electricity in Shad Bagh area of Lahore; and Rs 200,000 detection bill to a power thieve in Johar Town. During the 151 days of grand anti-theft campaign, the spokesman mentioned, the LESCO detected pilferage on 51,726 power connections and 47,750 FIRs have been register
ed against electricity thieves in the relevant police stations, while 17,520 accused have so far been arrested by the police. The LESCO has so far charged a total of 71,424,856 detection units worth Rs 2,765,490,349 to all the power pilferers.