Lesco detects 350 power pilferers in 24 hours

LAHORE  –  The Lahore Electrical Provide Com­pany (LESCO) has detected a complete of 350 connections from the place clients had been pilfering electrical­ity in all its circles of 5 districts — Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara, on the 172nd day of the anti-power theft marketing campaign. A LESCO spokesman instructed the media right here on Sunday that the corporate additionally submit­ted FIR functions towards elec­tricity thieves, out of which 137 FIRs had been registered in re­spective police stations. On the 172nd consecutive day of the anti-power theft marketing campaign, the spokesman added, massive commer­cial shoppers had been additionally discovered concerned in electrical energy theft and all of them had been additionally disconnected and charged with detection models. Among the many seized connections 09 had been business, 01 industrial, 02 agricultural and 338 home, and all these connections had been disconnected and charged with a complete of 241,388 models as detection invoice amounting to Rs 8.588 mil­lion. Apprising the media about some main energy pilferers, he defined that LESCO charged Rs 300,000 detection invoice to an elec­tricity pilferer in Shafiqabad space; Rs 254,700 detection payments to an influence pilferer in Phool Nagar, Rs 200,000 detection invoice to an elec­tricity thief in Akbari Gate space, and Rs 150,000 effective within the type of detection payments to a buyer stealing electrical energy in an space round Knowledge Darbar. Through the 172 days of the grand anti-theft marketing campaign, the spokesman males­tioned, the LESCO detected pilfer­age on 59,706 energy connections and 54,859 FIRs have been regis­tered towards electrical energy thieves within the related police stations, whereas 17,795 accused have to date been arrested by the police. Imply­whereas, the Lahore Electrical Provide Firm (LESCO), in collabora­tion with Tehsildars (Restoration), recovered greater than Rs 3.2 mil­lion from 232 persistent default­ers in all 5 districts – Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Ka­sur and Okara- on the 167th day of its restoration marketing campaign.