CHINIOT: The district enforcement committee against electricity theft has caught 20 electricity thieves in 64 raids who were obtaining direct supply from LT lines and tampering with electricity meters.

Deputy Commissioner Muhammad Asif Raza at a committee meeting asked the police and other relevant departments to facilitate and provide every possible assistance to the Faisalabad Electric Supply Company in their actions against these thieves.

The registration of FIRs, arrests, and other punitive measures should be carried out continuously to yield results.

He also called for public cooperation in identifying cases of electricity theft and encouraged people to report complaints or provide information to the Fesco helpline at 1718, saying the identities of informers would be kept confidential.

RAID: Assistant Commissioner Ashfaq Ahmad Kohli raided a warehouse belonging to a trader near the Government Girls Degree College for Women and seized 24,000 one-kilogram packets of ghee, valued at Rs12 million.

The shop was sealed, and shopkeeper Ali was fined Rs100,000.

KILLED: A youth shot dead his friend on an issue in Chak No 151 JB.

Waqas Javed and Ali Shan, who were close friends and studying in a local college in Aminpur Bunglow during their second year of Intermediate, exchanged words over an issue.

Ali, armed with a pistol, went to Waqas’s house in village Chak No 151 JB and opened fire on him before fleeing the scene.

Waqas sustained serious gunshot injuries and was transported to the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad, where he succumbed to his injuries.

The Kot Wasawa police registered a case against Ali, and his accomplices.

Published in Dawn, September 11th, 2023