Kathmandu, Jan 23: Police have arrested 16 persons including the former and current employees of Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) for their involvement in the theft of electricity.
Among the arrested employees, 10 are the current ones while two former and four entrepreneurs. They were arrested from different places of Kathmandu Valley and Hetauda, the police said, adding that they used various devices to leak the electricity by illegally reducing tariff on the meter boxes installed at some particular industries, factories, garments, hotels, lodges and the residences of special persons.
Senior Superintendent of Police and Chief of Kathmandu Metropolitan Crime Division, Sarbendra Khanal, informed at a press conference that with the leakage of electricity, the arrested employees were taking hefty amount from the concerned factories and the house owners.
The arrested ones are Supervisor at NEA Balaju branch, Suman Shrestha, electrician at Baneshwor branch, Achyut Khadka, senior assistant at NEA Distribution and Customers Service Directorate Ratnapark, Dil Bahadur Saud, meter readers from the same office- Om Dhungana, Shyam Basnet, Pradip Sharma, Thakur Maharjan, and Manij Shrestha, meter reader at Lagankhel branch, Surya Bahadur Thapa, and meter reader at Hetauda Distribution Centre, Mahadev Pradhan.
Similarly, the former employees arrested by the police in this connection are Bhagwan Pandey and Tahal Bahadur Karki.
The police also confiscated various tools used by the arrested employees to hoodwink the NEA. RSS
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