Gas, power theft: 3 factories fined Rs160m

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MULTAN: At least three major industrial units in the industrial estate here were fined Rs160 million during a raid by the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) on Monday, a press release issued by the district government read.

Additional Deputy Collector General Ali Akbar Bhatti supervised the raid.

Bhatti told The Express Tribune that the raid had been conducted on the directions of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. The district administration was told to supervise the raid to avoid the possibility of some Mepco or SNGPL officials letting the violators slip, he said.

He said the district government had sent a report to the chief minister’s monitoring cell of all raids carried out over the past week.

Nafees Paper Mills did not have Mepco and SNGPL connections. The factory drew gas from a pipeline attached to the main SNGPL supply pipeline to the estate.

The factory was fined Rs120 million for stealing gas for seven years. It was also fined Rs15 million for electricity theft. An FIR has been registered against its owners.

A glass factory in the area was also fined Rs15 million for electricity and gas theft.

Mepco Operations General Manager Abdul Mateen Khan told The Express Tribune that 200 FIRs had been registered in several cases of electricity theft in the last 10 days.

Gas, power theft: 3 factories fined Rs160m – The Express Tribune

 

[arushbhai]

Fortunately, they are going to completely tackle this theft issue in punjab but sindh, balochistan and kpk will face a hard time doing the same. KPKs chief minister should focus on stopping gas and electricity theft instead of threatening to stage protests. Guy is a class 1 idiot. Stop protesting and start working for the betterment of your province. 5 years from now, people wont remember your little protest, they will remember how you performed and how you resolved the loadshedding issue

 

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Grand Operation in Multan

 

[Jango]

All is good...but tell me one thing.

Pichlay panch saal bhi Shahbaz Sharif ki hi hakumat thi. Tab soay huay thay kia?

 

[Thorough Pro]

way to go.

MULTAN: At least three major industrial units in the industrial estate here were fined Rs160 million during a raid by the Multan Electric Power Company (Mepco) and Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) on Monday, a press release issued by the district government read.

Additional Deputy Collector General Ali Akbar Bhatti supervised the raid.

Bhatti told The Express Tribune that the raid had been conducted on the directions of Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif. The district administration was told to supervise the raid to avoid the possibility of some Mepco or SNGPL officials letting the violators slip, he said.

He said the district government had sent a report to the chief minister’s monitoring cell of all raids carried out over the past week.

Nafees Paper Mills did not have Mepco and SNGPL connections. The factory drew gas from a pipeline attached to the main SNGPL supply pipeline to the estate.

The factory was fined Rs120 million for stealing gas for seven years. It was also fined Rs15 million for electricity theft. An FIR has been registered against its owners.

A glass factory in the area was also fined Rs15 million for electricity and gas theft.

Mepco Operations General Manager Abdul Mateen Khan told The Express Tribune that 200 FIRs had been registered in several cases of electricity theft in the last 10 days.

Gas, power theft: 3 factories fined Rs160m – The Express Tribune

 

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Mepco crackdown: Policeman killed in power theft raid

MULTAN:

A police constable died on Friday from injuries suffered when residents of a colony raided by a Multan Electric Power Company team on an anonymous tip put up resistance to severing of illegal connections.

Twenty of the villagers were arrested and cases were registered against more than 50.

Saddar police said Mepco officials had been informed that residents of the colony in Chak 37/D near Deepalpur in Okara district had been stealing electricity. The colony has nearly 300 houses.

A Mepco task force, headed by Sub Divisional Officer Liaqat Ali of Haveli Lakha sub division, raided the colony and found that residents had connected wires to the electricity poles.

The SDO was accompanied by seven workers and three policemen.

When the workers started cutting the wires, more than 20 residents of the colony tried to stop them.

The SDO refused to listen to them and directed the workers to continue disconnecting the illegal installations.

In about 10 minutes, police said, more than 100 men attacked the Mepco workers and police with sticks and iron rods.

Some of them used firearms, injuring Constable Muhammad Ahmed.

The police headquarters was informed and reinforcements were called. However, the assailants had fled by the time help arrived. At least 11 Mepco officials were injured in the episode.

The injured were taken to tehsil headquarters hospital, from where Ahmed was referred to district headquarters hospital. He died on the way.

THQ hospital Medical Superintendent Shahid Farooq said five of the 13 injured admitted to the hospital were in critical condition. These included two policemen, the SDO and the task force in charge.

DSP Imtiaz Ahmed said an FIR had been registered against 55 assailants with the Saddar police. Of these, he said, 20 had been arrested.

Funeral prayers for the deceased constable were offered at his home town, Qasmana. Sahiwal Division RPO Shehzada Sultan and Okara DPO Raja Basharat attended the funeral.

Mepco crackdown: Policeman killed in power theft raid – The Express Tribune