Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) Royal Park Sub-Division SDO Muhammad Irfan, along with his inspection team, found that owners of Al-Imran Hotel and Al-Haadi Hotel near Lahore Railway Station were stealing electricity by reversing their power meters.
A spokesman told the media here Wednesday that 18 Air-Conditioners (ACs), 47 fans, and 52 lights were being operated on the stolen electricity in the hotels. One of the hotel owners and Meter Reader Ghulam Abbas, who was allegedly conniving in the power theft, were arrested by the police. The company also suspended the meter reader and initiated departmental inquiry against him. He said that inspection team also submitted applications in the respective police station for registration of FIRs against Meter Reader Ghulam Abbas and the accused. He said the accused would also be charged units under the detection bill.
An inspection team of the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) detected electricity theft at Ashfaq Pharmacy in Nagra Chowk in Dholanwal Sub-Division. Company’s spokesman told the media here on Wednesday that Dholanwal SDO led the inspection team during a search operation against the electricity thieves and found that owner of the pharmacy was stealing electricity by hooking directly from the transmission line of LESCO. The inspection team seized the wire used in the theft and also got registered a case against the accused in Nawankot Police Station. The electricity pilferer was also charged a detection bill worth Rs 200,000.
