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Mumbai Businessman Caught Stealing Power Worth Rs 2.45 Cr in a Week

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A businessman hailing from Panvel in Mumbai was nabbed for stealing power worth Rs 1.15 crore. Notably, this comes a week after the businessman was fined for power theft worth Rs 1.3 crore.

As per the investigation carried out by the police the accused, Jiyauddin Patel who runs a stone crushing enterprise, had allegedly tampered with the electrical energy meter to point out decreased readings.

After detecting the theft at the accused’s stone crushing unit, MSEDCL carried out a raid at his second unit too.

As of now, the police said that a second FIR has been registered against the businessman and his two associates at Panvel metropolis police station. Officers however assured that they will carry on their drive against irregularities in meter readings throughout MMR.

Earlier this year, authorities of power utilities in Haryana had detected almost 2,500 cases of electricity theft while conducting raids at industries and commercial establishments in five towns and cities of the state.

Though routine raids were conducted to detect cases of electricity theft, this particular raid was planned by Power Minister Ranjit Chautala upon getting feedback that industries and big commercial establishments are big contributors to electricity theft. To send across the message that “big players won’t be spared”, raids were planned and conducted in a very coordinated way to detect theft in big industries. Haryana Power Minister Ranjit Chautala referred to the move as “unprecedented in the history of the state”.

Earlier, in a raid conducted during a night in 2020, nine officers including three chief engineers and five superintending engineers of the electricity department were caught stealing electricity by kundi connections. A penalty of Rs 7 lakh was imposed on them.

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What monkey fled with a bag containing evidence in it: Read full story

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The court, generally, considers a person who commit a crime and the one who destroys the evidence, as criminals in the eyes of law. But what if an animal destroys the evidence of a crime committed by a human.

In a peculiar incident in Rajasthan, a monkey fled away with the evidence collected by the police in a murder case. The stolen evidence included the murder weapon (a blood-stained knife).

The incident came to light when the police appeared before the court and they had to provide the evidence in the hearing.

The hearing was about the crime which took place in September 2016, in which a person named Shashikant Sharma died at a primary health center under Chandwaji police station. After the body was found, the deceased’s relatives blocked the Jaipur-Delhi highway, demanding an inquiry into the matter.

Following the investigation, the police had arrested Rahul Kandera and Mohanlal Kandera, residents of Chandwaji in relation to the murder. But, when the time came to produce the evidence related to the case, it was found that the police had no evidence with them because a monkey had stolen it from them.

In the court, the police said that the knife, which was the primary evidence, was also taken by the monkey. The cops informed that the evidence of the case was kept in a bag, which was being taken to the court.

The evidence bag contained the knife and 15 other important evidences. However, due to the lack of space in the malkhana, a bag full of evidence was kept under a tree, which led to the incident.

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