Five citizens including the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board contractor were nabbed for power pilferage.
Cantonment Assistant Commissioner Nazia Perveen nabbed contractor Yousaf Faiz in the area of Westridge on account of power theft. The power supply line was cut off and the meter taken into custody. Munir ul Haq, Nawaz Ameer and Nasir Aziz Gilani were also arrested for power theft and their meter wires snapped.
Meanwhile, Assistant Commissioner Khalid Javed Ghoria launched an operation in the precincts of Bani Police Station at Asghar Mall Road and arrested Shahzad red handed in power pilferage case.
Syed Ayub Shah was also apprehended in Kuri Road, Muslim Town area located in Sadiqabad, red handed who was using power for domestic use illegally.
DCO Rawalpindi Talat Mehmood Gondal said that the operation against power and gas pilferage will continue and the culprits will receive exemplary punishment.