sonarpur a 71yearold retired ordnance factory employee was electrocuted while trying to switch on the light of a lamp post near his residence at sonarpur on saturday evening bangshibadan saha the victim was taken to the nearby subhasgram hospital where he died resident of a housing complex at sonapurs ward no 8 saha would switch on the light every evening on saturday he had stepped out around 630pm and soon after his wife jharna 65 heard him scream she rushed out to find her husband stuck to the post jharna tried to switch it off with a wooden stick but got pulled to the post herself the couple was finally freed from the post by neighbours while jharna escaped with minor injuries bangshibadan received severe burnsfamily members of bangshibadan saha at his sonarpur home on sundaylocals alleged that the area had a severe drainage problem and gets waterlogged regularly civic maintenance they pointed out was poor a 26yearold youth was killed in a similar fashion in the same area last week he was electrocuted while trying to free his sister from an electrical wire that had been hanging loose