Tuesday's rain did not even spare the city oldest prison, the Arthur Road Central jail, as water flooded the premises and disrupted the working system. What added to the woes was the overcrowding at the jail, as it houses 2,300 inmates against its capacity of 800.

"All the barracks on the ground floor were flooded. The authorities were forced to shift over 1,000 undertrials to the upper barracks," said a jail official requesting anonymity.