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Electrocution Kills Woman At New Delhi Railway Station Amid Heavy Rain

New Delhi: Amidst heavy downpour and water-logging in the national capital, a woman succumbed to freak electrocution at New Delhi Railway Station on Sunday. The deceased has been identified as Sakshi Ahuja of Preet Vihar of East Delhi.

The woman reached the station early in the morning accompanied by her sister Madhavi Chopra, two other women, and three children, a report by NDTV said. They were to board the New Delhi-Bhopal Shatabdi express.

Sources said that Sakshi held on to an electric pole while negotiating a puddle just outside the railway station as the road was water-logged and got a heavy jolt of current. The incident occurred near the Exit Number one of the New Delhi Railway Station.

Her sister Madhavi rushed her to the nearby Lady Hardinge Medical College (LHMC), but the doctors announced her brought dead.

Based on the complaint of Madhavi of negligence by the authorities, a case has been registered under Sections 287 and 304 (negligent conduct with respect to machinery and causing death by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code, police said.

Sakshi’s father Lokesh Kumar Chopra blamed the authorities of gross negligence.

Visuals at the sight of the accident showed naked live electric wire at the bottom of the pole, which might have caused the tragic incident. Based on the registered case, both railways authorities and police are probing to determine the person responsible for the negligence.

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