Overview
- The boy, identified as Samar Sheikh, died in Thane’s Indira Nagar on Monday night after touching an iron staircase that carried live current.
- Following Monday’s electrocution, hundreds gathered outside Srinagar police station to demand action against the state power distributor MSEDCL and dispersed after police promised action.
- Police registered an accidental death case and sent the body for a postmortem examination.
- Investigators said an FIR would be filed once the MSEDCL electrical inspector submits a report on how the current reached the building’s metal fixtures.
- Residents allege MSEDCL staff cut supply earlier that day and left a live cable uninsulated, which they say electrified the staircase and grill, renewing concern over exposed wiring in dense settlements.