A grocery shop owner from Nalasopara is in a legal problem after her actions inadvertently led to a teenage boy’s death. The woman connected a live wire to the grille of her shop window every night during shutting.

This 18-year-old boy, paid with his life for this ‘anti-theft’ measure investigations revealed. A report stated that his mother went looking for him, hours after he did not return home. She found him unresponsive behind a grocery store. He was declared dead. The incident occurred in January. It was later found that he had got an electric shock. The shop owner had decided to install this after thieves had broken into her shop during the pandemic and done away with cash and groceries.