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Remand for three in alleged power theft cases

Staff Reporter

Refusal to pay penalty charges in spite of several reminders

NEW DELHI: Three persons who had allegedly stolen power directly from North Delhi Power Limited lines and refused to pay the penalty charges in spite of several reminders have been remanded to judicial custody by the Special Courts of N.K.Goel, Anju Bajaj Chandna and D.K.Malhotra here over the past week.

The Additional Sessions Judges had while taking a strong note of the offence rejected the bail applications of the accused, Baljeet Singh, Deepak and Vijay Kumar, and sent them to jail.

The power distribution company said Vijay Kumar, a resident of JJ Colony Wazirpur, was stealing power by directly tapping low voltage lines.

Acting on the FIR filed by NDPL on June 19 this year, the police arrested him and he was produced before court, which remanded him to 14 days in jail. The accused was charged with illegally drawing a load of 17 kW against a sanctioned load of 2 kW.

In the case of Deepak, a resident of Budh Vihar Phase-I, the company alleged that he was caught red-handed by the enforcement team while indulging in direct theft of electricity by hooking on to the LV.

The 16.87 kW power being drawn with unauthorised wires was being used to run an unauthorised factory. The third accused, Baljeet Singh, a resident of Village Pooth Kalan, was also held for direct theft of electricity.

He was allegedly tapping NDPL's lines with single core and double core cables and drawing a load of 99.92 kW for running his plastic factory, called Plastic Gulla Manufacturing Works. The company has urged its consumers to support its Enforcement initiatives and pro-actively report power theft by calling at 27468030.

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