Kolkata, Sept. 25 -- The Calcutta High Court today directed the West Bengal government, Kolkata Municipal Corporation and CESC to submit a comprehensive report through affidavits on the city's drainage systems and conditions and causes of so many deaths in the electrocution during unprecedented rains in the night of Monday-Tuesday.
The court also sought a report if there are unauthorised constructions near rivers and canals by November 7.
The court also asked the Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation Limited (CESC) to submit a report on why electrocution took place during the rain in the city on Monday night and in the wee hours of Tuesday.
A double bench of Acting Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Apurba Sinha Ray following a PIL soug...