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FIA arrests Hesco employee involved in Kunda network

By Aftab Ahmed
January 30, 2024

Hyderabad: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a worker of the Hyderabad Electric Supply Company (Hesco) allegedly involved in bribery and facilitating Kunda connections.

A power technician while fixing electric meters in Pakistan. — AFP/File
A power technician while fixing electric meters in Pakistan. — AFP/File

The arrest was made in a trap raid carried out in connection with an inquiry that was initiated on a complaint of a man, Adnan Ali.

The suspect was identified as Muhammad Irfan, an employee of the Hesco Hyderabad.

He has been accused of his involvement in operating a network of illegal Kunda connections in the Saddar sub-division of the HESCO Hyderabad.

FIA officer Masroor Baloch said the suspect had been collecting monthly bribes from registered consumers of Hesco. Subsequently, a written application was submitted before a Hyderabad district and sessions

court, with a request for deputing a magistrate for conducting a trap raid, he added.

The civil judge and judicial magistrate-IV was deputed and the trap raid was conducted in his presence at a Photostat shop behind in Saddar.