MANTESWAR, June 27 -- On the afternoon of March 31, 21-year-old Iti Haoladar was sitting with her six-month-old son outside her home in Dharmadanga village in Bengal's Purba Bardhaman district. Her house is two thatched rooms under a tin roof, barely a kilometre from the Hatkalna gram panchayat office. Unexpectedly, a man on a red motorbike stopped in front of her house. His helmet was red too. The stranger said he had come from the state power department to inspect the electric meter, and asked how many people were home. Haoladar said she was alone, and that the others would not return for a few hours. The man left, and returned around 30 minutes later - this time to "read the meter". ...