Daily Times

The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) detected a total of 158,872 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) in 420 days of grand anti-power theft campaign.

A LESCO spokesman told the media on Saturday that the company also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 149,243 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 43,851 accused have been arrested. The LESCO has so far charged a total of 167,178,913 detection units worth Rs 6,221,080,122 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.

Separately, the Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has recovered Rs. 6.095 million from 293 chronic defaulters in all the five districts – Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara – during the last 24 hours of its recovery campaign.

A LESCO spokesman told the media here on Saturday that the company recovered outstanding dues of Rs 1.008 million from 38 defaulters in Northern Circle; Rs 0.055 million from 27 defaulters in Eastern Circle; Rs 2.056 million from 52 defaulters in Central Circle; Rs 0.067 million from 31 defaulters in Southern Circle; Rs 0.031 million from 30 defaulters in Nankana Sahib Circle; Rs 0.072 million from 39 defaulters in Sheikhupura Circle; Rs 0.065 million from 52 defaulters in Okara Circle; and Rs 0.042 million from 24 defaulters in Kasur Circle.