Over three days have passed since the first electrocution deaths were reported from the city after the recent spell of showers but the authorities concerned have yet to find out the cause of the electrocution.
A couple and their 10-year-old child were electrocuted at their home in Khardah in North 24 Parganas district on Tuesday, apparently while trying to charge a mobile phone.
The deaths were followed by at least five more electrocution deaths in the city and on the outskirts in the past 72 hours.
The Telegraph spoke to several government officials to find out whether the reports, which they say every day they are waiting for to know the reasons for the electrocutions and fix responsibility, arrived on Friday.
The answer from each agency was negative.
State power minister Aroop Biswas, who told Metro on Thursday that he had sought a detailed report on each electrocution death, said he was yet to receive any report till Friday evening.
“As the incidents happened at different places, it is taking time to compile (the information). I am yet to get any report,” he said.
The chairperson of the board of administrators of South Dum Dum Municipality, in whose area two 12-year-old girls were electrocuted on Wednesday evening, said he had not received any report.
“I am expecting the report tomorrow evening or Sunday morning,” chairperson Panchu Gopal Roy said.
The municipality, he said, has show-caused a private agency, hired to maintain the lamp posts in all 35 wards, for alleged negligence.
He had not mentioned any private agency while speaking at length with this newspaper on Thursday.