Tunnelling thieves stole gas value over a billion
Federal sleuths swooped down on a bureau on a hinterland of Haripur and held dual men. PHOTO: EXPRESS
HARIPUR: Federal sleuths swooped down on a bureau on a hinterland of Haripur and held dual group who had dug outrageous tunnels to take gas and electricity.
The volume of burglary has been estimated by a gas application during around Rs12 billion.
Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials and internal military behaving on a censure of Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) raided a chemical bureau in Hattar Industrial Zone to unearth a 600-metre prolonged hovel built to take gas from categorical pipeline.
FIA Deputy Director Naeemullah Khan pronounced bureau owner, Fazal Wahid and his confederate Irfan Khan had excavated 300 feet subterraneous and built a atmospheric hovel to lay a 6 in. and a 9 in. tube joining with categorical supply of gas.
“The hovel had blowers for oxygen supply, joint fans and lights,” Naeem said.
Villagers around a area had been angry of haphazard gas supply. In winter, particularly, these people were left frozen as Wahid stole gas to run his factory, a emissary executive said.
People have termed a gas burglary box a mega-scandal. “Hattar is not a dried or genealogical area in a mountains. How can officials be unknowingly of people digging tunnels with a assistance of excavators, laying bootleg pipelines and hidden gas so openly,” a citizen said.
Published in The Express Tribune, Oct 7th, 2017.
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