India, July 11 -- Around a week after two college students were electrocuted on June 30 while walking through a waterlogged street in Nerul, the Nerul police on Thursday registered a first information report (FIR) against an executive engineer of the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) for alleged negligence.

Pravin Gade, Executive Engineer, Circle-1, NMMC, has been booked under sections 125(a) and 152(b) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, for causing hurt and endangering life through negligent acts. Investigators said a case was not registered immediately after the incident as they first sought to determine responsibility for the accident.

"Correspondence was carried out to ascertain whose negligence had led to the incide...