The Haryana lokayukta has given directions to the Director General of Police (DGP), Haryana to probe into the matter of involvement of DCP (East) office in an alleged case of power theft in Gurugram district. The DCP office is situated at Sushant lok-1 area.
The lokayukta has directed Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam ltd (DHBVN) as well to investigate this matter and submit its report as soon as possible.
The issue came to light when a complaint filed by Harinder Dhingra, a Gurugram resident against the power theft to the lokayukta. The concern department directed DGP to filed a detailed report within 30 days of the orders. The order was passed on April 17, 2017. The Pioneer has a copy of the said order.
The order further stated that the office of DCP (east), Gurugram was using electricity illegally more than two years from nearest pole during the period of April 20, 2012- August 7, 2014 when the electric connection of DCP office was disconnected on account of nonpayment of the outstanding amount.
The Superintending Engineer (SE) of Gurugram circle, had enquired and submitted the report on April 12, 2017, that the connection of DCP office, Gurugram was disconnected for nonpayment of outstanding amount worth of Rs 3,93,104 in the month of April.
later the bill was paid by the DCP officer on 7 August 2014 and accordingly the new connection was released on the same date.
Meanwhile, the complainant alleged that during the period of the electricity theft no record found with ACP (Head Quarter) Gurugram about available with it an alternate source of electricity used by the DCP office during the entire period.
Interestingly no such permission was ever granted to DCP (East), Gurugram office for using electricity from the DHBVN.
According to the order that presently Rs 1,01,575 is outstanding on the connection bearing A/C number 6533450000 in the name of Deputy commissioner of Police (East), Sushant lok-1.
Meanwhile, the electricity department has sent a letter as well as verbal communication has been made with the office of DCP (east), Gurugram by the concerned official for depositing the outstanding amount but the same has not deposited till now.
“We are not aware of the said issue yet. We will check our records with the same and after checking our records, we will inform the concern officials about this issue,” Deepak Saharan, DCP (East), said.
Earlier this month the Haryana Discom department slaps Rs 88.78 lakh penalty for power theft to Haryana police. The maximum power theft cases were detected by the department in Ambala circle (Rs 14.6 lakh), followed by Faridabad circle (Rs 10.86 lakh), Kaithal circle (Rs 9.51 lakh) and Gurugram circle (Rs 8.37 lakh).