Vigilance Raid Finds Stolen Power at Manduadih Hotel and House; 39 kWh Across East UP

Purvanchal DISCOM vigilance teams raided power-theft points across seven eastern Uttar Pradesh districts on Friday, 11 September 2026, with the Varanasi lead landing on a Manduadih hotel and a nearby house. The regional total stated for the day was 39 kilowatt-hours of stolen load.

The drive ran under ASP (Vigilance) Samar Bahadur and was led by Saroj Pandey. Simultaneous checks covered Varanasi, Ballia, Sonbhadra, Mirzapur, Deoria, Kushinagar and Gorakhpur. This desk keeps Manduadih in the lead and treats other districts as context for the same Friday sweep.

In Varanasi’s Manduadih Chandpur pocket, teams recorded 6 kWh at Ayushi Jayaka hotel and 9 kWh at a house. Sub-inspector Ramashray Yadav and junior engineer Rahul Singh Chandel of Varanasi-I enforcement are the officers named on the city action. Briefings cited two extra cables and hooking — katia — with the hotel described as running on stolen power. Those are vigilance findings at the raid stage, not finished court findings. Assessment and legal follow-up sit downstream of the detection note.

Katia and bypass cases are the DISCOM’s bread-and-butter enforcement language: unmetered taps, extra lines, meters defeated. A hotel load of 6 kWh and a house load of 9 kWh are mid-weight city finds when stacked against the 39 kWh regional figure. Fifteen kilowatt-hours inside Manduadih alone account for a visible share of that east-UP total. Naming the SI and JE keeps the Varanasi stop accountable to readers who want more than an anonymous raid line.

Elsewhere in the same Friday sweep, Ballia’s Newari house logged 9 kWh under a team that briefings linked to Akhand Pratap Singh, JE Shashi Kapoor and Vipin Singh. Sonbhadra’s Nadira Kirbil meter-bypass case logged 5 kWh. Mirzapur’s Kachhari Vijaypur house logged 5 kWh. Bhadohi’s Aurai meter bypass logged 5 kWh. Kushinagar logged 6 kWh. Gorakhpur’s Khajni pocket logged 6 kWh. Those lines stay secondary to Manduadih in this file.

Hotels on stolen supply sit in a different risk band from a single house tap. Commercial load runs longer hours and pulls neighbours into the same feeder stress. The Manduadih hotel finding is therefore the city lead even though the adjoining house’s 9 kWh is the larger single number on the Varanasi sheet.

Power-theft raids do not by themselves restore a feeder’s health. They create a paper trail of detected load, named locations and named officers. Compounding or prosecution follows the vigilance note. This article locks the Friday stamp: Manduadih hotel and house, two extra cables, named Varanasi-I team, and a 39 kWh east-UP total.

For Manduadih residents and hoteliers on metered supply, the practical signal is that Chandpur sits inside an active enforcement map. For the DISCOM desk, the locked arithmetic is 6 + 9 in Varanasi against 39 across the simultaneous belt — and the officers who signed the city stop.