Power Theft Delhi

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that there are serious allegations of sand theft against Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and added that the "theft" would come to an end after the Aam Aadmi Party comes to power in the state.

The Delhi High Court has directed a man to plant 50 trees as community service while agreeing to close criminal proceedings against him in a power theft case.

Organised theft of power in Delhi for charging of e-rickshaws has assumed serious proportions with discom sources putting the annual losses due to it at nearly Rs 150 crore.

An East Delhi businessman was slapped with a penalty of Rs 1.15 crore and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a special electricity court for power theft, a BSES spokesperson said.

Two persons were injured when a team of a Delhi-based power distribution company (discom) making a routine check of power theft was allegedly attacked by a mob in the Kamruddin Nagar area of the capital, the company said on Wednesday.

India's power companies have a problem largely responsible for $10 billion a year in losses. Slum dwellers steal electricity and refuse to pay their bills. But company officials often can't go in without being chased by mobs-and sometimes beaten, tied up, urinated on, even murdered.

An engineer died in Delhi yesterday when his car rammed a tree, allegedly when he was being chased by a mob during a drive against power theft, a spokesperson of private power company BSES said. Four people in the car with him were injured.

A Delhi police sub-inspector and three BSES employees were injured in a stone-throwing incident by a group of people during a raid to check power theft in Ranhola area of outer Delhi.

Top officials of BSES have been pulled up by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over "frequent outages" in areas like Old Delhi and Seelampur during Ramzan, even as the discom claimed that power theft and overloading of distribution transformers are behind the ongoing crisis.

Delhi Government today once again extended till May 31 its power amnesty scheme, which offers resolution of various types of complaints and grievances pertaining to electricity theft, inflated bills, misuse charges among others.

Seeking to shield people from long judicial ordeal, a day-long Lok Adalat has settled over 1,300 cases of power theft, pertaining to direct theft and meter tampering, by consumers of BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL).

The Aam Admi Party (AAP), which came to power for the second time in Delhi - with a record 67-seat win - is "encouraging theft" by promising people free water and cheap power, Congress leader Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said observing that some of the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's promises were simply "not achievable".

A 54-year-old business man held guilty of stealing electricity has been sentenced by a Delhi court to day-long detention in the courtroom after he cleared his punitive power bill worth Rs 4.02 lakh to the power distribution firm.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said that there are serious allegations of sand theft against Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and added that the "theft" would come to an end after the Aam Aadmi Party comes to power in the state.

The Delhi High Court has directed a man to plant 50 trees as community service while agreeing to close criminal proceedings against him in a power theft case.

Organised theft of power in Delhi for charging of e-rickshaws has assumed serious proportions with discom sources putting the annual losses due to it at nearly Rs 150 crore.

An East Delhi businessman was slapped with a penalty of Rs 1.15 crore and sentenced to two years imprisonment by a special electricity court for power theft, a BSES spokesperson said.

Two persons were injured when a team of a Delhi-based power distribution company (discom) making a routine check of power theft was allegedly attacked by a mob in the Kamruddin Nagar area of the capital, the company said on Wednesday.

India's power companies have a problem largely responsible for $10 billion a year in losses. Slum dwellers steal electricity and refuse to pay their bills. But company officials often can't go in without being chased by mobs-and sometimes beaten, tied up, urinated on, even murdered.

An engineer died in Delhi yesterday when his car rammed a tree, allegedly when he was being chased by a mob during a drive against power theft, a spokesperson of private power company BSES said. Four people in the car with him were injured.

A Delhi police sub-inspector and three BSES employees were injured in a stone-throwing incident by a group of people during a raid to check power theft in Ranhola area of outer Delhi.

Top officials of BSES have been pulled up by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal over "frequent outages" in areas like Old Delhi and Seelampur during Ramzan, even as the discom claimed that power theft and overloading of distribution transformers are behind the ongoing crisis.

Delhi Government today once again extended till May 31 its power amnesty scheme, which offers resolution of various types of complaints and grievances pertaining to electricity theft, inflated bills, misuse charges among others.

Seeking to shield people from long judicial ordeal, a day-long Lok Adalat has settled over 1,300 cases of power theft, pertaining to direct theft and meter tampering, by consumers of BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) and BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL).

The Aam Admi Party (AAP), which came to power for the second time in Delhi - with a record 67-seat win - is "encouraging theft" by promising people free water and cheap power, Congress leader Sheila Dikshit on Thursday said observing that some of the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's promises were simply "not achievable".

A 54-year-old business man held guilty of stealing electricity has been sentenced by a Delhi court to day-long detention in the courtroom after he cleared his punitive power bill worth Rs 4.02 lakh to the power distribution firm.