LAHORE, Sep 16 (APP): The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) found 527 consumers involved in electricity theft in all its circles on the tenth consecutive day of anti-power theft campaign on Saturday.
A LESCO spokesman told the media here that the company also submitted applications against all electricity thieves to the respective police stations, out of which 247 FIRs [first information reports] were registered while 42 accused were arrested.
During the operation, he said, large agricultural and 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 were 10 industrial, 28 commercial and 489 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 966,566 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 40,574,412.
On the tenth day of anti-power theft operation, the LESCO charged 48,520 detection units worth Rs 2 million to an industrial connection in Mandiali Stop Sheikhupura, 5,874 detection units of Rs 350,000 to another customer in Rahmat Colony Wandala Road, 4,158 detection units of Rs 277,550 to a connection in Muridwal Thokar Niaz Beg and 4198 detection units amounting to Rs 264,327 to a customer stealing electricity directly from transmission line in Chah Meeran area.
During the 10 days of grand operation, the LESCO detected a total of 3364 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity, and also submitted FIR applications against 3,206 electricity thieves, out of which 2,236 FIRs had been registered with the respective police stations, while 186 accused arrested. The spokesman said that all the electricity thieves had been charged so far with 8,265,896 detection units amounting to Rs 356.468 million.