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HYDERABAD, Oct 7: A number of Hesco teams, appointed by the regional manager, maintenance and testing wing, Hyderabad, carried out checking of 5,329 connections during September and detected 1,663 cases of power theft.
According to a report issued by the maintenance and testing wing, 1,403 domestic, 243 commercial, 12 industrial and five agricultural consumers were found guilty of theft.
Furthermore, meters of 151 domestic, 116 commercial, five industrial and three agricultural consumers were running slow.
The teams of circle-I and circle-II, Hyderabad, have recommended legal action against the defaulting consumers. Legal action has also been recommended against 819 consumers of Nawabshah.
DEMOLISHED: The building control department, Hyderabad Development Authority, backed by the Hussainabad police, on Tuesday demolished illegal constructions in a local building.
The demolition of illegal constructions, which were in violation of the approved plan, was carried out under the directions of HDA director-general Ali Ahmed Lund on the complaint of the residents of the Zeeshan Plaza.
KOTRI BRIDGE: People’s Party Parliamentarians MNA from Dadu Nawab Abdul Ghani Talpur has condemned the recovery of toll tax from vehicle owners on the Kotri Bridge.
In a statement issued here on Sunday, the MNA demanded that the Sindh chief minister should withdraw the tax as he had done in the case of the Sukkur railway bridge. He said he would raise the issue in the National Assembly if the toll tax on the bridge was not abolished.
The PPP leader regretted that a digital telephone exchange of 300 connections which had to be made functional in September to provide telephone facilities to the people of Lakhi Shah Saddar, Taung, Jaugara and other areas of the Kotri taluka had not been installed as yet.
He alleged that at the insistence of a political group, the district police were committing atrocities against the people.
