GREATER NOIDA, Aug. 6 -- Eleven people were booked for allegedly stealing electricity during a joint enforcement drive carried out by the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) in parts of Dadri and Greater Noida on Tuesday, officials said on Wednesday. The raids detected an estimated 34.20kW of unauthorised power consumption.

The action was carried out by UPPCL enforcement teams as well as a team from the Noida division as part of the power utility's ongoing campaign, launched in the last week of July, to curb electricity theft and reduce distribution losses in Gautam Budh Nagar, said officials.

According to the discom, nine cases of alleged power theft were detected during inspections in Adarsh Nagar, Anandpur and Anand Nagar...