PSPCL slaps Rs 10.63-lakh penalty on sub-contractor

Kuldip Bhatia

Ludhiana, May 27

A sub-contractor, Potalia Enterprises, engaged by a construction agency to execute the work of elevated road project in the city, was caught today stealing power by a ‘kundi’ connection to operate his equipment at the project site near Gulmor Hotel on the Jagraon bridge-Bharat Nagar Chowk stretch.

During the checking, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) officials seized the equipment. An FIR has been lodged with the anti-power theft police station here against the sub-contractor and penalty of Rs10,08,357, along with compounding fee of Rs55,000, has been imposed on the erring sub-contractor.

The PSPCL chief engineer, Bhupinder Khosla, noticed the ‘kundi’ connection while passing from near the project site. He stopped at the site to check whether power was being stolen from a transformer.

According to Khosla, the total connected load on the project site was found to be around 11 KW and charges for consumption of that much electricity for the past year were imposed on him.

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