400 households in Karachi: SSGC disconnects illegal gas network

KARACHI: Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has disconnected an illegal gas network supplying natural gas to around 400 households during an anti-gas theft operation in Karachi, the company said on Friday.

According to a statement, the raid was carried out by SSGC’s Counter Gas Theft Operations (CGTO) team in coordination with the Customer Relations Department (CRD) Theft Section, Distribution Department, SSGC Police and local police at Kacha Road, opposite Masjid Ali Murtaza near Nipa Flyover in Block-11, Benazirabad.

The company said the operation uncovered a large-scale gas theft network in which suspects had illegally tapped into a two-inch high-pressure SSGC gas pipeline by installing a direct connection through a one-inch Muller-T plastic pipe. The illegal connection was supplying stolen natural gas to approximately 400 households.

SSGC said around 20 feet of the two-inch pipe used in the theft was recovered as evidence, while the unauthorized connection was disconnected on the spot.

According to preliminary investigations, the suspects were charging each household an advance payment of Rs20,000 for providing the illegal gas connection, in addition to a monthly fee of Rs2,500 for the continued unauthorized supply of natural gas.

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