Minutes Before Woman Died At Delhi Station, Teen Was Electrocuted 16 Km Away

The death of 17-year-old Sohail has come to light on a day the National Human Rights Commission has pointed to "negligence" in the death of Sakshi Ahuja.

Just half an hour before a 34-year-old woman got electrocuted in front of her children at the New Delhi railway station on Sunday, a 17-year-old died in another part of the city while trying to wade through a street filled with water into which a live wire had fallen.

The death of 17-year-old Sohail has come to light on a day the National Human Rights Commission sent notices to the chairman of the Railway Board, the Delhi government and the city police over the woman's death, pointing to "life-threatening lapses" and "apparent negligence of the authorities".

Sohail, a Bengaluru resident, had come to his uncle's house in south Delhi's New Friends Colony about 45 days ago for his holidays. He used to stay at his uncle's house during the day and go to the house of another relative, Jamal, in East Delhi's Seemapuri at night to sleep.

Amid heavy rain since Saturday night, the teenager left Jamal's house early on Sunday to return to his uncle's house. He reached Taimoor Nagar near his uncle's house around 5 am and found that a street was waterlogged. When he stepped into the water to get across, passersby heard Sohail scream and collapse. They noticed a wire in the water and called the police, who got the power disconnected