MULTAN:Joint teams of the Multan Electric Power Company (MEPCO), Rangers and police detected 15 electricity theft cases in Khanewal and removed meters, agricultural transformers and 1,800 feet of low-tension conductor during a crackdown on power pilferers and defaulters. Under the supervision of MEPCO Khanewal Circle Superintending Engineer Mushtaq Ahmed Uthangal and the Rangers wing commander, the teams removed five agricultural tube-well transformers, three three-phase meters and six single-phase meters over outstanding dues exceeding Rs 2.7 million.
The teams recovered Rs 644,000 from the defaulters and submitted reports against the suspected power thieves to the relevant police stations. Meanwhile, in Rahim Yar Khan, teams removed 21 electricity meters over non-payment of outstanding dues in Basti Bandor and Satellite Town and recovered Rs 300,000 from running defaulters, Mepco sources said.