Follow Up: 16 Nepal Electricity Authority staff held for electricity theft

Police on Sunday arrested 16 persons for their alleged involvement in acts of electricity theft in various places of the Capital. Police said they were involved in tampering with electricity metres and

defrauding the government-owned power monopoly for last more then 10 years. The arrestees are former or current NEA staffers Suman Shrestha, Tahal Bahadur Karki, Mahadev Pradhan, Achyut Khadka, Dil Bahadur Saud, Om Dhungana, Shyam Basnet, Pradeep Sharma, Surya Bahadur Thapa, Thakur Maharjan, Manij Shrestha and Bhagawan Pandey. Likewise, water bottling entrepreneur Kumar Lama of Gokarneshwor, sweet shop owner Tapan Ghosh of Gaushala, cotton trader Parvej Alam of Naxal and sweet shop owner Ramesh Chundal of Anamnagar were arrested for mobilising the NEA staff in the fraudulent activity. Alam and Ghosh are Indian citizens.

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