It is not a joke but truth that nearly 500 teams having five to six members in each of Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam (HVPN) on the direction by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khatter conducted surprise raid at about 20000 domestic as well as commercial electricity consumers all over in Haryana state which started early morning and continued till late night in which more than 3000 electricity theft cases were detected and amount worth over Rs 9 crore towards fine was imposed on those found involved in power thefts on Tuesday. Raiding teams disconnected power connection of large number of consumers where theft of electricity was detected. State Electricity Minister Ranjit Singh Chautala while talking to media persons told that it is first time in the state that such a large surgical strike against power thefts has been organized in Haryana state in a highly secret way in which even the members of raiding teams were unaware of the same.
Chautala said that such raids against power theft in the state would continue in future also. He disclosed that earlier such types of surgical strikes against power theft were also held three times during this year in which electricity theft of value worth crores of rupees was detected. Chautala said, raiding teams detected large number of power connections where power supply was available but in official record these electric connections were shown disconnected long ago thus suspecting involvement of officers and staff of electricity department involved in embezzlements and action will be taken against them, he warned.
According to information, apart from Chief Minister only a handful of senior bureaucrats of Haryana state government including V. Umashanker Chief Secretary, P.K. Das Secretary Power Supply Department, Alok Kumar Mittal Chief CID and P.K. Aggarwal DGP Haryana were aware of this surgical strike. Chautala said that most of the power connection where electricity theft was detected disconnected by the raiding teams.
