Factory owner among 4 booked over power theft in Mianwali.

SARGODHA -- Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has apprehended the power theft worth million of rupees through direct connection from transformer in a furnace mill.

Influential power pilferers threaten the dire consequence to FESCO team and also mistreated but FESCO staff has seized the electricity wire, meter and transformer at spot, Police Station Piplan has registered a case against 4 persons including factory owner.

FESCO authorities said Wednesday that on special directives of Ministry of Energy (Power Division) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) FESCO Shafiq ul Hassan, FESCO Task Force has started crackdown against power theft in FESCO region.

During Operation Last night, under the supervision of Superintending Engineer Mianwali Jam Gul, Sub Divisional Officer Liaqtabad Shazaib Saleem along with LS-II Ghulam Ahmed, Meter Inspector Ziaullah, LM Ali Abbas and ALM Saleem Akhtar checked the Pak Cotton factory at Musa wali and found electricity theft through direct connection from LT Bushes of heavy capacity transformer of 630KVA and electricity was using for melting iron in furnace mill.

The meter was installed in the name of Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar son of Sheikh Abdul Sattar and on his will Mr. Ziaullah and M Afzwl were pilfering the electricity. When FESCO officials tried to...