Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) in-spection team caught Baba Fareed Hotel’s owner once again stealing electricity in Dholanwal Sub-Division. The companys spokesman said here Monday that SDO Dholanwal along with his staff found that the owner of a locally well-known Baba Fareed Hotel at Yateem Khana Chowk, was once again pilfering electricity. The accused was not only using the stolen electricity but also supplying it to residential quarters. The LESCO team seized the wire used in the theft and filed an FIR application against the accused with local police, besides charging him with 3,600 units in the detection bill.
The said hotel was caught stealing electricity a few days ago. He added that in an anti-power theft op-eration, the Johar Town Sub-Division SDO Irfan Ali while leading the inspection team detected power theft at an iron and steel workshop where welding plants, angle grinder and drill machines were being operated on stolen electricity. The workshops connection was disconnected immediately and an FIR application was submitted to the area police station. The accused has also been fined Rs 100,000 by the LESCO.The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 125 connections from where customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 86th day of grand anti-power theft campaign. The LESCO spokesman told media here Monday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against 125 electricity thieves, out of which 65 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations.
