Coming down heavily on people sentenced in separate cases of power theft, a special court has attached 21 properties in various parts of east Delhi, a BSES spokesperson said on Thursday.
The properties were sealed between Aug 21 & Sept 9, after the people convicted for power theft failed to pay fines, he said.
The "power thieves" were cumulatively stealing around 550 KW of electricity & penalties of around Rs 6.2 crore were levied as per guidelines, he said, adding that in 16 cases, electricity was being stolen by way of direct theft & in the remaining 5 cases, through metre tampering.
"Efforts of teams of discoms to check irregularities are often thwarted by the local miscreants. Inspection teams are stopped by unscrupulous elements from checking premises & often heckled at," he said.
Under the Electricity Act, 2003, power theft attract a penalty & imprisonment up to five years.
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