The special courts of electricity have sentenced four thieves in three separate cases of power theft, including owners of a 30-room guest house to jail and imposed heavypenalties.
In the first case, the two guest house owners were awarded three-year rigorous imprisonment and penalised `33 lakhs (fine `20.14 lakhs along with civil liability of `13 lakhs), a senior BSES official said.
In the second case, a person was penalised `23.70 lakhs (fine `14.2 lakhs + Civil Liability of `9.49 lakhs). Moreover, in both the cases, in case of default of the fines, they will have to undergo simple imprisonment of six months and three months respectively. In both cases, the accused had pleaded not guilty and claimed trial, he said.
