The enforcement wing of the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) has registered 754 cases against violators and recovered ₹6.24 crore till May this year in special drives carried out against power theft and unauthorised electricity usage in the central zone.
Teams from the department have been conducting special drives in various areas of the central zone, targeting locations where power theft is prevalent.
According to data provided by the PSPCL, as many as 34,117 connections have been checked so far this year by the officials, out of which 346 cases of power theft and 281 of wrong meters have been registered against the violators.