The UP Power Corporation Ltd (UPPCL) has caught two consumers stealing electricity by tampering with smart meters in an ice factory in Gorakpur even as the corporation is gearing up to launch a state-wide drive to install smart meters claimed to be tamper-free at consumers’ residences from July.
This is being claimed to be the first case of power theft through tampering with a smart meter.
As per the FIR lodged in a local police station in Gorakhpur, the UPPCL enforcement squad during checking at an ice factory found two smart meters installed on the same premise for the same purpose. On suspicion, the team checked meters and found consumers Imran Khan (38) and Ahamad Khan (40) had tampered with the neutrals of the smart meters to steal electricity.
