Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) Chief Executive Officer Engineer Shahid Haider has intensified the ongoing anti-electricity theft campaign by starting a series of night operations across the LESCO region to make the campaign more effective and result-oriented.
The LESCO Chief told the media here Saturday that during the night operations, special teams of LESCO were checking supply lines and power meters. He mentioned that checking and scanning teams of Okara Circle remained active throughout the last night and conducted operations against electricity thieves and defaulters in urban and rural areas of Okara. Similarly, special operations were also conducted in Shahpur Sub-Division, Dholanwal Sub-Division and Amin Park areas in Lahore, in which several electricity thieves were caught. He said, “Special operations have been launched in the entire LESCO region even at night with the aim to make the anti-power theft and recovery campaign more effective.”
Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has detected a total of 407 connections from where the customers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts (Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara) on the 147th day of grand anti-power theft campaign. The LESCO spokesman told media here Saturday that the company has also submitted FIR applications against electricity thieves, out of which 173 FIRs have been registered in respective police stations, while 07 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 147th consecutive day of the anti-power theft campaign, the spokesman added.
