(CRIME) LESCO detects 14,259 power pilfering connections.

LAHORE -- The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) detected a total of 14,259 connections from where the consumers were pilfering electricity in all its circles of five districts - Lahore, Sheikhupura, Nankana Sahib, Kasur and Okara - during its 30-day anti-power theft campaign, it emerged Sunday.

A LESCO spokesman told the media that the company had thus far submitted FIR applications against 14,127 electricity thieves, out of which 13,314 cases had been registered in respective police stations, while 4,653 accused were arrested.

The spokesman said that all the electricity thieves had been charged Rs 1.33 billion [Rs 1,331,516,512 exactly] for 29,424,716 detection units.

UnmuteOn the 30th consecutive day (October 7) of the campaign, the spokesman added, LESCO found 475 connections involved in electricity theft in all its circles and also submitted FIR application against 473 electricity thieves in the respective police stations, out of which 256 FIRs have been registered while 37 accused have been arrested.

During the operation, he...