According to police authorities with knowledge of the situation, a 17-year-old boy died in a similar manner on Sunday morning in southeast Delhi’s Taimoor Nagar, just an hour before a 35-year-old lady died by electrocution at the New Delhi train station, they said on Tuesday.
The child, who went by the name Sohail, was visiting his family in Taimoor Nagar, according to the police. He was a resident of Bengaluru. They said he entered a flooded road close to the home on Sunday morning and was electrocuted as a result. According to police, the power leak that caused the teen’s death appears to have been caused by a loose live wire in the flooded roadway.
A private hospital called the police control centre at approximately 5 a.m. on Sunday, according to the officers, alerting them to the situation. When a police squad arrived at the hospital, the physicians reported that the patient had been brought there already dead and had passed away from electrocution. At the New Friends Colony police station, a case of death by carelessness and an act endangering the life and personal safety of others was subsequently filed under Indian Penal Code sections 304A and 336.
The police squad then arrived at the Taimoor Nagar incident location. Sohail apparently passed out after stepping into a flooded road, according to a local investigation. A live wire was discovered in the water by bystanders, who then reported it to the energy department, which shut off the power. The adolescent was subsequently taken out of the water, but by that point, according to authorities, he had passed away.
Sakshi Ahuja, a schoolteacher who resided in Preet Vihar in east Delhi, her away by electrocution on Sunday as well. She had walked into a flooded roadway at the train station and unintentionally contacted a loose wire from an adjacent electrical installation.
