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The Calcutta High Court connected Thursday (September 25, 2025) sought a study from the West Bengal government, Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) and Calcutta Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC) connected the rainfall successful the metropolis connected Tuesday (September 23) morning, which resulted successful aggregate deaths.
A Division Bench of the Calcutta High Court, of Acting Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Apurba Singh Roy, directed the CESC to taxable a study connected the incidents of electrocution.
The Bench directed the KMC to record a study connected what steps it has taken regarding the city’s drainage system, and the State authorities was directed to taxable a study connected the compensation to the kin of deceased.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had announced a compensation of ₹2 lakh to the adjacent of kin of the deceased and blamed CESC for the deaths owed to electrocution. Ms. Banerjee had enactment the fig of deceased to nine, which included 8 deaths successful Kolkata. The substance volition travel up for proceeding again connected November 7
“From the All India lawyers Union we had sent a missive to the Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court connected the contented of h2o logging and electrocution death. The Court has issued announcement to CESC, West Bengal authorities and KMC,” advocator Shamim Ahmed told media persons.
Even aft 48 hours of deluge definite areas successful Kolkata remained waterlogged and without powerfulness supply. Areas of Kolkata similar Mandeville Garden successful Ballygunge and Santoshpur remained flooded and the residents had to header up without energy proviso for the past 3 days.
Residents of Utsav Utsarg Apartment successful Ward No. 109 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation person been near without powerfulness since Tuesday morning. On Thursday (September 25, 2025), aft attempts were made to pump h2o retired from the compound of adjacent Udita Apartment, the h2o entered Utsav Utsarg apartment complex, meant for the low-income and mid-income radical families.
“We person aged persons astatine our location and KMC cannot reconstruct powerfulness unless the waters are pumped out. The caregivers are besides incapable to travel to the assistance of the aged which has exacerbated our ordeal,” a nonmigratory of Utsav Utsarg Apartment said. The section councillor Ananya Banerjee did not respond to calls. The rainfall betwixt the nighttime of September 22 and 23 besides caused terrible harm to the Durga Puja festival successful the city.
State Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Samik Bhattacharya besides visited areas which were h2o logged and had reported electrocution deaths. “Another municipal idiosyncratic dies successful stagnant water! In the Rajpur Sonarpur Municipality area, this idiosyncratic died owed to suffocation successful the filthy stagnant h2o of the drain,” the West Bengal BJP posted connected societal media.
The BJP enactment besides raised objections to a video of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, wherever she is breaking into a dandia creation portion inaugurating Durga Puja. While inaugurating a Durga Puja, Ms. Banerjee erstwhile again raised the contented of torrential rains earlier this week and blamed the Centre for non-dredging of Farakka Barrage for the h2o logging successful Kolkata.
