SHILLONG: As many as seven police personnel under Police Reserve in city were found to be involved in theft of energy, and accordingly Meghalaya Power Distribution Corporation Limited(MePDCL has filed FIRs against the accused police personnel.
The FIRs have been filed by Assistant Executive Engineer Arju Dkhar at Sadar police station against police personnel Thigmen Sangma, Pinchang G Momin, Nijon Marak, Mukherjee Marak. Lovesh Sangma, Ballen Sangma and Armit Sangma.
The FIRs stated that the seven police personnel, who are the occupants of the government quarters at Police Reserve are unregistered consumers of MePDCLand their power supply which was found to be illegally connected to their quarters, was disconnected and sealed by the Meghalaya Power Distribution Corporation Limited on April 6.
But again on further inspection on April 14, it was found that the seals have been removed and power supply to their quarters was taken directly.
All the accused personnel had direct connections without meters and the illegal load on all the defaulters was found to be 2 kilo watts each.
Besides filing FIRs, the Meghalaya Power Distribution Corporation Limited has also served a penalty bill of Rs 78,996 to each of the seven police personnel.
Officials informed that they have violated the provisions of the Indian Electricity Act 2003 and action can be taken against them if the penalty bill is not cleared within thirty days.
