The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 267 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 44th of the grand anti-power theft campaign.
The LESCO spokesman told media here Saturday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against 258 electricity thieves, out of which 204 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 28 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 44th consecutive day (Oct. 21) 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 15 were commercial, 02 agricultural, 02 industrial.
