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KHAIRPUR, April 5: The Khairpur division of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) disconnected 9,000 vandalised connections on Thursday during its ongoing campaign against kunda connections.
Hesco Executive Engineer Rafique Noonari said at a press briefing that Hesco teams disconnected over 5,000 connections in Kingri taluka and 4,000 in Luqman sub-division.
The teams also detected kunda and illegal connections to tube-wells in the katcha areas of Ulra Jagir and Kot Mir Mohammad, which were virtually no-go-areas for Hesco employees, he said.
In these areas tube-wells were being operated through direct illegal connections while transformers had been removed and handed over to concerned police stations, he said.
He appealed to the residents of katchi abadis in Khairpur and rural areas to get legal electricity connection on instalments.
Later, the teams set ablaze electricity wires removed after disconnecting kunda connections at railway ground in Luqman.
ROBBED: Unidentified armed men robbed trailer driver, spare driver and cleaner near Pipri on the National Highway late on Wednesday night.
Reports reaching here said that the trailer (IT-4892) was on its way to Charsadda district of NWFP when three unidentified armed motorcyclists stopped it and robbed its driver Shah Jehan Pathan, another driver Ulfat Khan and cleaner Abdul Rehman of cash after holding them hostage at gunpoint.
RELEASED: Kidnappers threw Jani Sonio near the village where they had snatched him one and a half month ago in severly tortured condition late on Wednesday night. Jani’s father Giyo Sonio told journalists on Thursday that his son was kidnapped over a land dispute by some influential men. He was a peasant and could not pay any ransom so the kidnappers released him after venting their anger.
