A seven-year-old boy was electrocuted in north east Delhi's Seemapuri on Wednesday night. Shivam got a shock from an electric pole outside a shop when he inadvertently touched it.
According to the police, it was around 8:45 pm when he was playing outside his house. A gift shop, 'SK Gift Gallery', had an electric signboard hung on the pole and another iron pole, both of which had current passing through.
Shivam's family rushed him to Guru Tegh Bahadur Hospital, but he was already dead. A call to the PCR was made at 9:05 pm. The boy lived in Dilshad Garden and a case was registered charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under Section 304A IPC (causing death due to negligence) at Seemapuri Police Station.