Former Punjab MPAs have been caught stealing electricity.
Multan Electric Power Supply Company (Mepco) employees arrested two former provincial MPs of the Punjab Assembly in the act of stealing electricity.
A crew from the electric supply company allegedly conducted a raid on a farm property owned by former MPA Mumtaz Ali Khan in a Sadiqabad neighbourhood and found that more than a dozen air conditioners were being powered by main power lines.
The previous MPA from Muzaffargarh, Mian Alamdar Qureshi, was also caught stealing electricity in a separate incident.
As former Punjab MPAs have been caught stealing electricity, what actions have been taken against them are yet unknown.
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A candidate for an MPA seat and his supporters beat up a crew from Mepco the day before in Kabirwala, a town in the Khanewal region of Punjab, after they exposed his theft of energy.
The company’s representatives have filed a complaint with the Saddar police station demanding an action under the Terrorism Act against MPA candidate Rana Muhammad Irfan and others.
According to the lawsuit, the Mepco team looked at a metre that Irfan was using and discovered that electricity was being stolen to run a tube well.
Customers resisted when officials tried to remove the transformer to cut off the energy supply, preventing them from doing so.
Later, the officials asked a police officer for help with the situation. According to the complaint, as the Mepco crew was waiting on a road for the police car, a group of people approached them and began beating them.
An official sustained significant injuries to his nose and arm during the assault. A video of the event that shows one of the victims bleeding from the nose is also making the rounds on social media.
The officers have requested action be taken against Rana Irfan and his associates for attacking them in the complaint.
The change occurs as a result of the government’s nationwide crackdown on electricity theft.
