The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) during 224 days of its grand anti-power theft campaign has detected a total of 75,937 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara).
The spokesman of LESCO informed the media on Wednesday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 71,943 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 30,056 accused have been arrested.
The LESCO has so far charged a total of 91,280,747 detection units worth Rs 3,391,437,039 to all the power pilferers.
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.
The spokesman added, the LESCO found 322 customers stealing electricity through various means and 151 cases have been registered against the accused, while 11 accused were arrested during the last 24 hours.
On the 224th consecutive day of the anti-power theft campaign, he mentioned that large commercial consumers were found involved in electricity theft and all of them were also disconnected and charged with detection units. Among the seized connections, he explained, 06 were commercial, 03 agricultural and 313 domestic, and all these connections were disconnected and charged with a total of 207,977 units as detection bill amounting to Rs 5.517 million.
Apprising the media about some major power pilferers, he mentioned that LESCO charged Rs 200,000 detection bill to an electricity pilferer in Johar Town; Rs 200,000 detection bill to another power pilferer in Saddar area of Samanabad; and Rs 182,000 fine in the form of detection bill to a customer stealing electricity in Haveli Lakhha.
