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“A customer that gains access to electricity by tampering or meter bypass shall in addition to paying for the reconnection costs and administrative charges stated above be liable to pay for the loss of revenue by the Discos for the unauthorised consumption by paying back-bills.

“And every day, unfortunately, we are seeing meter bypass live and we are taking punitive interventions in terms of revealing them (defaulters) and surcharging them. So, for large power users, the monitoring is online. Let me just categorically say that they should not even attempt, it, because they will be caught.”

It, however, explained that before the takeover, technical competence reviews including forensic audits of all the Discos and the adequacy of their technical partners should be undertaken to ensure that they had not failed in their initial agreements with the government after the privatization exercise.