LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency), July 20: At least 3,000 commercial users in Bara have got the power supply to their industrial units restored illegally. The supply had been disconnected by the Tribal Areas Electric Supply Company (Tesco). Tesco officials had some time back launched a campaign for installing meters in all the seven tribal agencies and had disconnected the power supply to those industrial and commercial units who refused to install meters.

The Bara traders got restored the power supply to their business units illegally restored two weeks back.

Sources in Bara informed that the illegal connections by commercial users had put an extra load on the feeders supplying electricity to domestic users Naw Gazi Baba, Qambarabad and Besai Khwarah areas.

The area residents have complained of low voltage and unscheduled load-shedding in their houses.

A Tesco official, Ali Askar, told newsmen that his company would launch an operation against the illegal users of electricity in Bara tehsil, adding that electricity theft would not be allowed at any cost.

He said that his company had already disconnected the power supply to two industrial units and an illegally-installed transformer.