![]() Electricity meter tampering by consumersĪs mentioned above, consumers have the resources and knowledge to carry out successful tampering with an electricity meter and in a country like India where there is an absence of street cameras and a large population, it is easy to get away with the act. Luckily, the Electricity Act was enacted in 2003 to curb rampant electricity theft. ![]() Extreme measures of electricity theft include breaking the meter itself or replacing your meter with someone else’s. There are multiple ways to tamper with an electricity meter and some of them include turning the watthour meter upside down (prior to digitization this would make the meter turn backwards), replacing the meter with items such as copper wires or knives, or drilling a hole in the meter and inserting something to stop the disc at night and removing the object in the morning so that no one would suspect electricity theft. Meter tampering means doing any act which causes the meter to run slower or not at all and is basically theft of electricity from the company that supplies power. Electricity theft or tampering with the electricity meter has been around since Thomas Edison opened the world’s first electricity generating station in London in 1882. ![]()
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