Provincial task forces set up to keep electricity theft in check. DESIGN: FAIZAN SETHI/FILE
Sources confirmed that the move was initiated in accordance with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's directives and that Section 39A of the Electricity Act has been added to FIA's list of offences as a result.
Provincial task forces have have also been set up to keep a check on electricity theft. They have been constituted in all four FIA zonal offices in Sindh, Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.
Deputy Director FIA Immigration Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore was nominated as the head of the provincial task force, while acting Deputy Director FIA Anti-Trafficking Unit Lahore was appointed as a senior member.
The country head of anti-electricity theft unit Hussain Asghar assigned the FIA Punjab task force to initiate inquiry against CEO Gujranwala Electricity Power Company (GEPCO) Mehboob Alam, accused of corrupt practices and electricity theft.
Under the new powers given to FIA, electricity theft cases can be registered in respective FIA anti-corruption police stations.
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If by this move electricty theft goes down..............its a good thing.
All those involve in electricity theft should be put in jail where there is no electricity as whole nation is suffering because of these crooks.
This is a good move hope its enforced in industrial areas as well as in residential areas, This Kunda culture gotta go !!!