Maharashtra: Textile firm owner gets 2-year rigorous imprisonment for power theft

THANE : A court here in Maharashtra has awarded two years’ rigorous imprisonment to a 60-year-old owner of a textile firm in a case of power theft and also imposed a fine of ₹3 crore on him.

District Judge P P Jadhav passed the order on April 1 and a copy of it was made available on Tuesday.

If the accused fails to pay the fine, he will have to undergo simple imprisonment for one more year, the court said.

Additional Public Prosecutor Vivek Kadu told the court that on October 18, 2003, some engineers of the Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company (MSEDCL) inspected the textile firm located in Bhiwandi town of Thane and found its electric meter was tampered.