5 transformers installed in fields found stolen
Garhshankar, August 5
Five transformers installed in the fields of Chahalpur and Maula Wahidpur villages of Garhshankar were stolen last night.
Thieves opened the transformers and took away expensive oil and metals. The villagers came to know about this theft when they went to their fields and saw that the tubewells were off and the transformers were missing from the electric poles.
People said it was surprising that high voltage current flowed through the cables of the poles and yet they managed to steal the transformers.
Onkar Singh, BJP leader of Chahalpur and Maula Wahidpur, Gurbaksh Singh, Charanjit Singh, Gurmel Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Iqbal Singh, Sandeep Barpagga and Jaswinder Singh said when they came to their fields, they saw that their tubewells were off and five transformers and their equipment installed on the poles were stolen.
The villagers said drug addicts stole people’s belongings every day. They demanded action against the thieves and new transformers should be installed in place of the stolen transformers immediately so that the crops sown in the fields could be watered. The villagers said a complaint had been made to the police and the electricity department. — OC
