Bengaluru: Five Bescom officials, arrested after a 23-year-old woman and her nine-month baby had been electrocuted, were released on station bail, according to a senior police officer.
The woman, Soundharya, was walking with her 24-year-old husband Santosh on the footpath near Hope Farm on Whitefield, holding her baby Suviksha in her arms, when she stepped on a live wire at 6 am. Police said that she and the baby were electrocuted.
The Kadugodi police, who arrived at the spot after being informed by some passersby, detained the five officials and held a few rounds of questioning. Around the evening of the same day, the five officials were placed under arrest.
