A 26-year-old man was electrocuted near the Patel Nagar Metro station in Delhi on Monday afternoon after he touched an iron gate that had electricity running through it.
The victim was identified as Nilesh Rai, a civil service aspirant who lived in a paying guest accommodation nearby. He was immediately transported to RML Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Police personnel from the Ranjit Nagar police station received information about the accident at around 2.43 pm on Monday. Upon arrival at the scene, they found that waterlogging on the road contributed to the electrocution.
The police registered a case at the Ranjit Nagar police station under sections 106(1) (causing death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide) and 285 (danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation) of the BNS. According to the police, forensic teams examined the scene, and the investigation was going on.
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