The enforcement wing of the Punjab State Power Corporation limited in Moga has uncovered operations of a gang involved in large scale power theft by tampering the electricity meters and seals thereby causing huge loss to the PSPCl.
PSPCl chairman-cum-managing director (CMD) KD Chaudhri on Friday said that Enforcement Wing checked electricity connections of house and workshop of Gurpreet Singh son of Dalip Singh resident of Rama village in Moga district.“Upon checking, it was found that meter seals have been tampered. On interrogation, he gave in writing that the meter seals have been got tampered by him from Jagsir Singh son of Atma Singh resident of Bilaspur village in Moga district,” he said.
CMD disclosed that the matter was immediately reported to anti-theft Police station, ludhiana, which raided house of Jagsir Singh where 77 tampered seals or meters were found.Jagsir Singh, on interrogation, disclosed that the job of tampering meters or seals is being done by Avtar Singh Bilaspur village resident and Raj Singh Talwandi Majoke village resident.
“Thereafter, raids were carried out in premises of Avtar Singh where material such as jack to pack seals, and bits used for tampering meters or seals were found. These persons used to remove seals from the electricity meters of PSPCl and after tampering with meters which make these run slow, false seals were fixed on the meters,” he said.
Chaudhri said that FIR has been registered against these persons in anti theft Police Station, ludhiana, and remand of persons have also been taken from the Court.Police is taking these persons to various placed to identify various electricity thefts being aided by them.CMD appealed to people of Punjab to shun menace
of electricity theft as under the new electricity act this is a serious crime for which there are provisions of stricter punishments.