SUKKUR, Oct 9: Hesco Chief Executive Adeeb-ul-Hassan Rizvi has said that officials responsible for undeclared and unjust loadshedding will be punished accordingly.
Talking to newsmen here on Saturday, he said there was no shortage of electricity and those official observing loadshedding to cover line losses would also be sent home.
He said no loadshedding would be observed in the holy month of Ramazan. He said three chief engineers had been suspended in this connection while no one would be spared if found indulged in malpractice.
Mr Rizvi said Rs11 billions would be spent over the maintenance and upkeep of Hesco facilities in Sindh through a five-year programme and Rs900 million would be spent on the overhauling of grid stations.
He said he had been informed that extra units had been charged from the government departments to cover up the losses.
He said extra billing of Rs7.5 million had been made to the government departments in comparison to the last year and added he had taken notice of it and all the wrongs would be corrected.
The chief executive suspended SDO Hesco Kandhkot sub-division Kandhkot and expressed his annoyance over the huge line losses in the Site area. He ordered posting of SDO Raj Kumar in the Site sub-division with a view to minimize the line losses and better recovery position.
Mr Kumar was earlier posted in Ghotki.
CHILD KILLED: A child was killed and three other persons were injured in an armed clash between two groups of the Bijarani tribe in the Umeed Bijarani village, Karampur police station jurisdiction, on Saturday.
Six-year-old Ameer Khan, son of Jam Bijarani, was killed and Sahib Khatoon, Mehtab Ali and Abdul Zaman Bijarani were injured in the clash. When a police party reached at the spot, the warring groups also opened fire on police, which was returned.
Police said the clash was the result of a dispute over karo-kari.
Din Mohammad Bijarani lodged an FIR against six persons, including Najam and Ghulam Mustafa.
LIFE TERM: The Anti-Terrorism Court-I, Sukkur and Larkana, here on Saturday sentenced an accused to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs100,000 in a murder case. The convict was identified as Suhno alias Mashooq Mugheri.
A group of bandits, while kidnapping Nazir Hussain Pathan and Barkat Ali Jagirani in the Qamber police station jurisdiction on May 20, 2002, had opened fire after seeing a police party, injuring head constable Mazhar Ali, constable Nazir Ahmad Gopang and foot tracker Mohammad Panah Brohi. Mohammad Panah had died on the way to a hospital.
Later, Suhno had surrendered before police along with a kalashnikov. His accomplices are absconding.