Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 429 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 139th day of grand anti-power theft campaign.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Friday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against 429 electricity thieves, out of which 166 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 09 accused have 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 139th 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.
Among the seized connections were 09 commercial, 02 industrial, 02 agricultural and 416 domestic. All the power pilferers were charged with a total of 298,649 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 10.600 million.
