70-12 months-Previous Maharashtra Guy Jailed, Fined Rs 19 Lakh In 2008 Energy Robbery Case
The complainant corporate should be paid Rs 12,60,000 for losses, the courtroom stated (Representational)
Thane:
The district courtroom in Maharashtra’s Thane has sentenced a 70-year-old guy to 2 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a superb of Rs 19 lakh in a case of energy robbery courting again to 2008.
In his order, District Pass judgement on PP Jadhav held accused Monuddin Mehaboob Shaikh responsible of offences punishable underneath segment 135 of the Electrical energy Act, 2003.
The segment offers with robbery of electrical energy.
The courtroom order used to be handed on February 6 and made to be had on February 9.
Shaikh used to be an worker of a powerloom manufacturing unit the place electrical energy robbery used to be detected all the way through an inspection and had performed a key function within the crime, consistent with the prosecution.
Further Public Prosecutor Vivek Kadu had advised the courtroom that officers of an influence distribution corporate had performed the inspection of the manufacturing unit on March 10, 2008, when the accused used to be provide within the premises.
All the way through the inspection, it used to be noticed the manufacturing unit had taken direct provide of energy the usage of an underground cable. The opening had bypassed the accredited course and joined the cable to the principle provide line, the courtroom used to be advised.
On review, it used to be discovered that between Might 16, 2007, and March 10, 2008, there used to be a robbery of 94,589 gadgets of electrical energy valued at Rs 6,32,454, Mr Kadu had stated.
The prosecution had stated the offence used to be very severe and sought most prescribed punishment for the accused.
The offence of robbery of electrical energy is punishable with a superb of minimal thrice the volume misplaced and three-year imprisonment.
The pass judgement on sentenced the accused to 2 years of rigorous imprisonment and imposed a superb of Rs 19 lakh on him.
In step with the courtroom order, the complainant corporate is to be paid Rs 12,60,000 for losses it suffered and this quantity must be drawn from the superb imposed at the accused.
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