Elderly couple found dead in room; electrocution suspected

An elderly couple was found dead today in their room, left waterlogged after overnight rain, on the ground floor of a building in southeast Delhi's Sangam Vihar colony.
It is suspected that the couple, identified as Deen Dayal (75) and Dhanwati (70), were electrocuted due to knee-deep water and presence of electical appliances which apparently fell into it, police said.
Their bodies were found close to the refrigerator. It was their son-in-law Sanjay who found their bodies this morning and rushed them to Batra Hospital, where doctors declared them dead and informed the police.
An inquest has been initiated into the matter. The cause of death can be ascertained after the postmortem reports are obtained, police said.

The couple's son, Rajender, who is a driver by profession, told police that almost all houses in E block were flooded following tlast night's heavy rain.
"We had sent the civic bodies a petition to help us clear the drains before the monsoon, but nothing was done to prevent waterlogging," Sanjay alleged.