Electricity Smart Meter: A unique case of electricity theft has come to light in a plastic factory and mill in Patna. Electricity was being stolen by controlling the smart meter with a remote. In this case, an FIR has been lodged in the local police station against the owners of both the industrial complexes.
Electricity Smart Meter: A big power theft was caught in Patna zone’s Fatuha and Punpun electricity supply division. In Punpun, flour, oil, chuda mills, power theft was being done with the help of remote. The meter was being controlled with the help of remote. In Fatuha, the theft was being done in the plastic factory through underground cable. Patna zone’s team has exposed the case of power theft at both the places by conducting raids. In this case, a fine of 47 lakh rupees was imposed on the plastic factory in Fatuha and more than five lakh rupees on the mill in Punpun. An FIR was registered against the owners of both the industrial complexes in the local police station.
The raiding teams involved in the theft caught in Fatuha included Fatuha’s Assistant Electrical Engineer Azad Kumar Singh, Electrical Executive Engineer Binod Kumar, Rajesh Kumar, Bablu Kumar, Ranjit Kumar. This entire team went to raid the plastic factory of consumer Jitendra Kumar and exposed the electricity theft. The raiding teams told that the accused was running the plastic factory by making a three-phase fuse system through AB cable inside PVC pipe inside the ground within his premises. Government AB cable was being used in the theft, which was seized. But it was snatched by the accused.
The raiding teams in Punpun included Assistant Electrical Engineer Chandramani Kumar Nirala, Junior Electrical Engineers Tarakeshwar Kumar, Naman Kumar, Manoj Singh, Vikas Kumar. On Thursday afternoon, on the basis of a secret information, this team reached the industrial premises of Ramchandra Rai in Gaurichak area to check the meter. It was found that electricity was being stolen by tampering with the meter using a remote. The seal of the meter was found broken.
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