During its ongoing anti-power theft campaign, Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) detected a connection belongs to a Wapda House employee stealing electricity in Rehmanpura area of provincial capital. According to LESCO spokesman here Tuesday, the SDO (Sub-Divisional Officer) Aleem Mustafa along with his team conducted a search operation in Rehmanpura Sub-Division and found that Taimur Ali, an Account Assistant in the Purchase and Disposal Section of WAPDA House, was stealing electricity by tampering with the meter. The inspection team disconnected Taimur Ali’s electricity connection immediately and charged him with 3,000 detection units worth Rs 180,000, besides submitting an FIR application to the area police station. Meanwhile, LESCO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider said that electricity thief would not be spared come what may, even if he/she is a LESCO or WAPDA employee.
Electricity thief is the enemy of the country and nation, he remarked. It is to mention that on the instructions of Prime Minister and Ministry of Energy (Power Division), the LESCO CEO has launched grand operations against electricity thieves as well as dead defaulters in the entire LESCO region for last two weeks. Moreover, Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has found a customer namely Abdul Razzaq, who is a leader of Kisan Etihad Group, involved in electricity theft in Chunian Division of Kasur Circle. The LESCO spokesman told media here Tuesday that following instructions of LESCO Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Engineer Shahid Haider, inspection teams along with local police are conducting operations against electricity thieves in the entire LESCO region. During an anti-power theft operation in Chunian Division of Kasur Circle, he said, the LESCO inspection team found that a leader of Kisan Etihad Group, Abdul Razzaq was stealing electricity directly from light transmission line (LT) through three illegal connections of 2kV. He added that LESCO team disconnected his power connection on the spot and also got him arrested by the area police after registering a case in this regard. He mentioned that the accused Abdul Razzaq was already a dead defaulter and owed Rs 3.1 million to LESCO.
