LAHORE: Multan police have booked veteran politician Javed Hashmi and his three sons-in-law in 4 circumstances registered over alleged electrical energy theft, it emerged on Saturday.
The 4 first data reviews (FIRs) have been lodged at Multan’s Makhdoom Rasheed Police Station on July 17 below Part 462J (interference, improper use or tampering with electrical meter by home shopper, and many others) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
One case every was filed in opposition to Hashmi and his sons-in-law Shahid Bahar, Zahid and Shahzeb, in opposition to whose names the electrical energy meters had been registered.
Based on the FIRs, copies of which can be found with Daybreakthey have been lodged on the grievance of Multan Electrical Energy Firm Restricted’s (Mepco’s) Sub-Divisional Officer (SDO) Mohammad Bilal.
The complaints, phrased in a near-identical method, claimed that Mepco’s crew checked the buyer’s website and located that the buyer was “stealing electrical energy by inserting a loop within the terminal of the corporate’s energy meter”.
The 4 electrical energy meters, whose numbers have been additionally acknowledged within the FIRs, have been seized by Mepco.
The FIR in opposition to Hashmi mentioned the alleged energy theft by him had precipitated losses price Rs249,100 to Mepco.
Equally, different FIRs claimed Mepco had confronted losses price Rs248,400 as a result of Shahid Bahar’s actions, one other Rs245,600 in damages linked to Zahid’s meter, and Rs247,600 of losses as a result of energy theft by Shahzeb.
Hashmi’s grandson Qasim confirmed to Daybreak that not one of the relations had been arrested as but.
In a Post on X On July 18, Hashmi confirmed that he and his sons-in-law had been booked in circumstances.
“They will arrest me; I’d not even search bail,” he wrote, terming the circumstances as “allegations”.
“I’m sitting in my home; come and arrest me. Neither will I conceal anyplace nor will I flee anyplace,” he added.
