Intensifying its ongoing campaign to check the menace of pilferage of power, unauthorized use of electricity and unauthorised extension of load cases, the Vigilance & Enforcement wing of Haryana Power Utilities had detected 212 cases of theft of electricity,199 cases of unauthorised use of electricity and imposed penalty over Rs4.48 crore on the erring consumers during the month of March 2015.
R.P. Singh DGP-cum Director Vigilance on Tuesday said penalty of over Rsone lakh had been levied in 95 cases which include industrial and non-domestic connections. In all, the amount of penalty exceeded Rs50,000/- in 172 cases of theft of energy. The electricity supply of the erring consumers had been disconnected immediately as per the existing instructions.
He said the maximum cases of theft of power, unauthorised extension of load and unauthorised use of electricity were detected at Faridabad, Hisar, Bhiwani, Gurgaon, Narnaul, Kurukshetra, Yamuna Nagar, Rohtak, Sonipat, Jhajjar, Jind and Panipat.
Instructions have been given to all field enforcement operation units to conduct special checkings by constituting teams to curb theft of power as the pilferage leads to loss of revenue as well as increase in line losses.
Singh added that theft of power is a cognisable and non-bailable offence. The Irrigation & Power (I&P) police stations have been directed to register FIRs and arrest the accused immediately in electricity theft cases.