DADU, Aug 22: At least 25 Hesco defaulters were arrested by the recovery Mukhtiarkar and Hesco team during raids at different places in Dadu town on Friday.
The reports said a team of Hesco led by the Mukhtiarkar, recovery, Ghulam Mustafa Soomro, and the SDO, Dadu city, Ghulam Qadir Pathan, raided various places for recovery of the amount due and arrested 25 defaulters.
The team raided an ice factory belonging to one Yaqoob Khokhar and found illegal power connection to his factory.
A case has been registered with the Dadu town police under section 39-A Electricity Act against the factory owner.
The names of some of the arrested defaulters were identified as Ali Sher Panhwar (defaulting amount Rs82,000), Bakhshal Mallah (Rs424,000), Shafi Mohammad Qureshi (Rs118,000), Ali Mohammad (Rs42,000), Mohammad Khan (Rs60,000), Hamid (Rs73,000) and Atta Mohammad (Rs52,000).
DEMO: The citizens of Phulji town observed shutter-down strike on Friday to protest against the Hesco line superintendent of the Phulji Feeder.
They regretted that the main line was closed for 10 hours when the fault occurred in the 25kv transformer near Makhdoom Bilawal.
The protesters, led by Abdul Mutallib Panhwar, president, Peoples’ Hari Committee, Dadu, blocked the Dadu-Phulji link road for five hours and burnt tyres.
Speaking to the demonstrators, Abdul Mutallib said that the line superintendent of the main feeder at Phulji disconnected the power supply to Phulji town and 50 villages for 10 hours by creating an artificial fault in the transformer.
