Chandigarh, July 14 -- A transformer fault occurred on Saturday night, around 11.30 pm, in Vikas Nagar, Nayagaon, causing a short circuit, resulting in voltage spike across the power network. Due to overvoltage, electric appliances in many households in the area got damaged.

The area plunged into darkness and was without electricity till it was restored again on Sunday evening.

Sanjay Kumar, a 49 years old paralysed patient, gasped for cool air in his room as power outage made his illness worse. Anil Kumar, his younger brother mentioned that after 8 pm on Sunday, the electricity was restored in the neighbourhood but his house remained without light after that as well. "When I asked linemen to check the electricity connection to my home,...