India, May 23 -- Power outages left residents in parts of Dadar, Wadala and Dadar Parsi Colony, as well as in Gaondevi and Girgaon Chowpatty, without electricity at the height of summer on Friday night. For some of these areas, it was the second such outage in eight days.

Power supply was interrupted in Dadar and Wadala at 9.25 pm due to a fault at the Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport (BEST) undertaking's Kings Way receiving station in Dadar. "Electricity supply was interrupted due to an air trip in transformer numbers 2 and 3 of the receiving station," said a BEST official. He said it would take around four hours to restore supply.

A separate power outage was reported in Gaondevi and Girgaon Chowpatty, when a transformer caug...