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HYDERABAD, Jan 08 (APP):The Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (HESCO) continued its operation against electricity thieves and defaulters on the 124th day in the HESCO region and recovered over 10,117.3 million rupees so far.
HESCO spokesperson informed on Monday that under the campaign to curb electricity theft, an additional 340 connections involved in power theft were apprehended in the last 24 hours, which included 9 commercial and 331 domestic connections, and all those were disconnected, while detection bills of 150,258 units were issued to those consumers involved in power theft, valued at 4.148215 million rupees.
According to the spokesperson, letters have been submitted for the registration of cases against 299 consumers involved in electricity theft at various police stations, leading to the registration of 13 FIRs.
During the campaign, a total of 2,375 cases have been registered, and penalties of over 437.3 million rupees imposed on electricity thieves so far.