Power theft: Show cause notice annoys 112 SDOs, JEs

Lucknow Around 112 sub-divisional officers (SDOs) and junior engineers (JEs) of the state capital have been served show cause notices to explain why they didn’t file FIR against power theft on the same day when they caught people stealing power. The UP Power Corporation Limited has sought the answers from its engineers, which has annoyed them.

However, most of the SDOs and JEs say that they gave the complaint to the police station concerned to register the FIR but the police took its own time in investigation before turning the complaint into an FIR. The technocrats feel that the bureaucrats do not understand their problems and are harassing them without any reason.

The UPPCL has sought the details from the engineers about the cases of power theft caught between 2017 and 2022.