{"id":552703,"date":"2023-02-04T10:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=552703"},"modified":"2023-02-04T11:43:52","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T06:13:52","slug":"electricity-theft-75-year-old-handed-3-year-jail-term-by-delhi-court-fined-rs-17-lakh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/electricity-theft-75-year-old-handed-3-year-jail-term-by-delhi-court-fined-rs-17-lakh\/","title":{"rendered":"Electricity theft: 75-year-old handed 3-year jail term by Delhi court, fined Rs 17 lakh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The convict, Harbhajan Singh, a resident of west Delhi\u2019s Vishnu Garden area was accused by the police of illegally tapping electricity from the input terminals of a meter and \u201cfeeding the entire load of the premises through illegal wires\u201d in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The court also imposed a fine of Rs 17, 20,054 on the convict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s Vishnu Garden area was accused by the police of illegally tapping electricity from the input terminals of a meter and \u201cfeeding the entire load of the premises through illegal wires\u201d in 2015. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 17, 20,054 on the convict.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}