The Tardeo police have registered a case against unidentified persons for allegedly stealing copper cables supplying electricity to street lights along the Mumbai Coastal Road in Worli .
The electrical engineer with the patrol team ran a check and discovered that power supply cables were missing from several poles along the stretch. Accordingly, on Thursday, the Tardeo police booked unidentified persons for the alleged theft under section 303 (theft) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
“We have registered a case based on a complaint from Tuffankumar Panda, 36, a project manager with Top Turbo Engineers Private Limited,” an officer from the Tardeo police station told HT. this is the first time that cable thieves have targeted cables belonging to other entities, police said While numerous cases have been registered across the city for alleged theft of MTNL copper cables. The theft came to light on Wednesday night, when the staff of the contractor engaged by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation ( BMC ) for road maintenance noticed that several lights were not functional and subsequently found that electric supply cables in those stretches were missing, police officers familiar with the matter told Hindustan Times. While patrolling the coastal road on Wednesday night, the staff of the Vikroli-based firm noticed that several streetlights near the NSCI (National Sports Club of India) in Worli were not functional, according to the police.
The total value of the stolen four-core copper cables was around ₹ 3 lakh, the officer noted.
“The patrol team shared the information with the central control room of the coastal road, which confirmed that cables were indeed missing and likely stolen by some unidentified persons,” the officer quoted earlier said.
