RECORDER REPORT

PESHAWAR: Peshawar Electric Supply Company (Pesco) has accelerated its ongoing drive against illegal connections in district Mardan and disconnected the electricity supply to four villages of Doaba sub division Shabqadar due to non-payment of Rs 0.4 million.

According to details, Pesco Mardan-2 Division & Takhtbai Division teams along with Pesco police, checked various premises in the jurisdiction of Bakhshali, Katlang, Sher Ghar sub divisions and nabbed 8 more persons on the spot using direct connections.

They are Numan S/o Riaz r/o Bakhshali, Nazar Khan s/o Nawaz Khan r/o Bakhshali, Ibrahim Khan s/o Wazir Bahadar r/o Katlang,Shahzad Khan s/o Dilber shah r/o Katlang,Abid Shah s/o Mumtaz Khan r/o Katlang,Murad s/o Gul Khan r/o sher ghar,Mushtaq s/o Din Khan r/o Sher Ghar and Sajid s/o Abdur Rouf r/o Sher Ghar.

Chief Executive Pesco has directed all the field formations to speed up drive against illegal use of electricity and direct hooks, PESCO has once again warned to stop power pilferage in the larger interest of the nation, due to which PESCO has to faces financial losses on one hand and on the other hand PESCO’s whole distribution system gets over loaded and the general public faces inconvenience of frequent power break downs.

Similarly Pesco Doaba sub division teams disconnected power supply to Ambadher village due to non payment of Rs.1796400 from 5 distribution transformers, power supply has been disconnected to Oacha Wala due to non payment of Rs.472000/ from 1 transformer, power supply has been disconnected from 1 transformer to Mian Qila due to nonpayment of Rs.912800 and power supply has been disconnected to Mahmodabad from 1 transformer due to non-payment of Rs.753850.