{"id":31290,"date":"2023-12-04T04:35:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T04:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/metro-bus-administration-found-involved-in-power-theft-pakistan-observer\/"},"modified":"2023-12-04T04:35:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T04:35:05","slug":"metro-bus-administration-found-involved-in-power-theft-pakistan-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/metro-bus-administration-found-involved-in-power-theft-pakistan-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Bus administration found involved in power theft – Pakistan Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has found the Lahore Metro Bus administration involved in electricity theft.<\/p>\n

A LESCO spokesman told the media here on Sunday that Bhati Gate Sub-Divisions inspection team found that the management of Lahore Metro Bus Service was stealing electricity as one phase of their power meter was dead, due to which the LESCO suffered a loss of millions of rupees. The inspection team seized the meter and charged 24,000 units to the Metro Bus administration as a detection bill.<\/p>\n

LESCO Chief Executive Officer Engineer Shahid Haider vowed that the anti-electricity theft campaign would continue without any discrimination. Similarly, LESCO suspended an Assistant Lineman (ALM) Babar Ali for illegally supplying electricity to LESCO defaulter and assisting in electricity theft.<\/p>\n

According to details, Kalakhatai Road SDO Mirza Aqeel Baig, in an operation in Faqir Town a few days ago, found one Muhammad Boota stealing electricity by installing a bogus meter, and got registered a case with the police station concerned.<\/p>\n

During investigation, it was revealed that electricity was being stolen with the help of Assistant Lineman Babar Ali of Kalakhatai Road Sub-Division. The SDO suspended Babar Ali, while a case registration application was filed against the employee under the provisions of electricity theft and aiding and abetting.<\/p>\n

The spokesman said that another inspection team caught a meter reader, Ejaz Shah, of College Road Sub-Division stealing electricity by hooking wire on the main transmission line in an area along Wahdat Road. A case has been registered against the accused at the Wahdat Colony Police Station, while departmental action was also initiated against him.<\/p>\n

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The Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) has found the Lahore Metro Bus administration involved in electricity theft. A LESCO spokesman told the media here on Sunday that Bhati Gate Sub-Divisions inspection team found that the management of Lahore Metro Bus Service was stealing electricity as one phase of their power meter was dead, due to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/pakobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/LESCO.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lahore-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}