Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 441 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 234th day of grand anti-power theft campaign.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Tuesday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 179 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 26 accused have been arrested by the respective police. 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 234th 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 disconnected and charged with detection units.
Among the seized connections 10 were commercial, 01 agricultural, 01 industrial and 429 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 339,252 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 8.184 million. Apprising the media about some major power pilferers, he explained that LESCO charged Rs 80,000 detection bill to an electricity pilferer in Nawan Kot area; Rs 45,500 detection bill to a power pilferer in Iqbal Town; Rs 40,000 detection bill to an electricity thief in Saanda area; and Rs 36,000 fine in the form of detection bill to another customer stealing electricity in Manawan area. During the 234 days of the grand anti-theft campaign, the spokesman mentioned, the LESCO detected pilferage on 79,860 power connections and 75,352 FIRs have been registered against electricity thieves in the relevant police stations, while 30,625 accused have so far been arrested by the police.
The LESCO has so far charged a total of 94,238,629 detection units worth Rs 3,467,124,743 to all the power pilferers.
Moreover, Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has recovered more than Rs 4.53 million from 110 dead defaulters in all the five districts – Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara – on the 220th day of its recovery campaign. LESCO spokesman told media here Tuesday that on the 220th day, SE (Superintending Engineer) Nisar Sarwar has recovered outstanding dues of Rs 0.64 million from 18 defaulters in Northern Circle; SE Umar Bilal recovered Rs 0.87 million from 26 defaulters in Eastern Circle; SE (Central Circle) recovered Rs 0.86 million from 22 defaulters; SE (South Circle) collected Rs 0.21 million from 04 defaulters; SE (Nankana Circle) recovered Rs 0.37 million from 12 defaulters; SE Najamul Hassan recovered Rs 0.51 million from 09 defaulters in Sheikhupura Circle; SE Jamshed Zaman collected Rs 0.49 million from 16 defaulters in Okara Circle and SE Ahmed Shahzad Chughtai recovered Rs 0.58 million from 03 defaulters in Kasur Circle. During the 220 days.
