Crackdown on Hooking and Power Theft: KPDCL Intensifies Night Inspections to Safeguard Power Supply

Crackdown on Hooking and Power Theft: KPDCL Intensifies Night Inspections to Safeguard Power Supply

The Kashmir Power Distribution Corporation Limited (KPDCL) has accelerated the pace of night patrolling and inspections across all 10 districts of the Kashmir division to combat incidents of massive hooking and power theft by consumers that often result in outages and damage to distribution transformers. An official spokesman in a statement issued here said that KPDCL also warned that legal action should be taken against offenders found involved in rampant hooking and connecting electricity lines of their own. While incidents of hooking in metered areas on bare conductors have witnessed…

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