Man held for gas theft as SSGC removes 237 illegal connections

On June 4, on a tip off, the SS&CGTO Operation Wing along with the SSGC Police and Recovery Department conducted a joint raid in Al Hikmat Biryani & Pakwan Center in Orangi Town, Karachi. A suspect was using gas directly through the service line. The SSGC Police have registered FIR against Muhammad Ibrahim, son of Abdul Kareem, who was involved in this crime and was arrested.

In a recent survey, a CRD team identified Mehmoodabad Society, Pak Avenue, Block 19 Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Golimar, Nazimabad Zone, and Liaquatabad No. 7, FB Area zone as some of the areas in which gas theft was prevalent. Residents of these areas had illegally extended gas to a wide number of households, which were identified during the survey, and all of their illegal connections were removed. A total of 136 houses were involved in this crime, whereby they were receiving gas by directly accessing the company’s main distribution line through illegal extensions.

The fight against gas theft continues in Upper Sindh and Balochistan continues. Seven disconnections were recently carried out in Nawabshah zone, while eight illegal connections were removed in Larkana zone, and a total of 22 disconnections were unearthed in several other areas of Sindh.

In Balochistan, 18 connections were pinched aboveground and 5 were disconnected from M-tee out of which 22 disconnections belonged to non-customers and one to a customer, who had installed a fake meter in Pishin zone. Sixteen illegal connections were removed in Saryab, while 14 illegal connections were disconnected in Cantt Zone, Quetta, where residents had installed overhead and underground clamps to steal gas, while 4 had installed fake meters. Meanwhile, in Samangli zone, 11 illegal connections were removed.