Haridevpur BSNL pole ‘not meant’ for lethal Kolkata Municipal Corporation light

The pole in Haridevpur on the city’s southern fringes that 11-year-old Nitish Yadav touched and got electrocuted on Sunday evening had loose wires hanging from it.

The pole on Mohammad Ishaq Road, in Haridevpur’s Paschim Putiary, belongs to BSNL. Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), however, has installed a street light on it.

The stretch was flooded when Nitish, a student of Class VI, was walking through it. He was taken to MR Bangur Superspeciality Hospital, where he was declared dead.