Observing that society as a whole is a victim in cases of electricity thefts, a Delhi court has recently sentenced a 75-year-old man to three years of rigorous imprisonment after he was convicted of powering his house by illegally tapping electricity.
The convict, Harbhajan Singh, a resident of west Delhi’s Vishnu Garden area was accused by the police of illegally tapping electricity from the input terminals of a meter and “feeding the entire load of the premises through illegal wires” in 2015.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 17, 20,054 on the convict.
