LESCO detects power theft at 25 shops, 5 houses.

LAHORE -- A Lahore Electricity Supply Company (LESCO) inspection team detected electricity theft in Hajveri Market during an operation against power thieves in Shah Alam Market Sub-Division area.

The company's spokesman told media here Friday that the owners of 25 shops in the market were stealing electricity from the direct supply of LESCO, thus causing a loss of millions of rupees to the national exchequer. The LESCO has not only charged all those shopkeepers a total of 26,000 units in detection bills but also submitted application against them in the respective police station for registration of cases under relevant clauses...