Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has recovered more than Rs 8.041 million from 285 dead defaulters in all the five districts- Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara- during last 24 hours of its recovery campaign.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Sunday that the company has recovered outstanding dues of Rs 40,000 from 40 defaulters in Northern Circle; Rs 2.085 million from 32 defaulters in Eastern Circle; Rs 1.005 million from 42 defaulters in Central Circle; Rs 1.051 million from 23 defaulters in South Circle; Rs 35,000 from 19 defaulters in Nankana Circle; Rs 1.018 million from 53 defaulters in Sheikhupura Circle; Rs 43,000 from 45 defaulters in Okara Circle; and Rs 62,000 from 38 defaulters in Kasur Circle.
Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 561 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) during its anti-power theft campaign in last 24 hour.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Sunday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 198 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 34 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. During last 24 hours 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 and charged with detection units.
Among the seized connections 01 were industrial, 12 commercial, 03 agricultural, and 545 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 418,941 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 17.060 million.
During the 379 days of the grand anti-theft campaign, the spokesman mentioned, the LESCO detected pilferage on 138,901 power connections and 131,471 FIRs have been registered against electricity thieves in the relevant police stations, while 42,440 accused have so far been arrested by the police. The LESCO has so far charged a total of 151,508,364 detection units worth Rs 5,426,764,266 to all the power pilferers.
