KOTA: A 55-year-old man and his 50-year-old wife were allegedly electrocuted to death at their house in Tejaji Ka Ganda village under Bhanwargarh police station area of Baran district on Sunday night. Their bodies were recovered from yard of their house in an agriculture field near a wire meant for drying clothes attached to an electricity pole passing by them.
The deceased were identified as Goverdhan Sahariya and his wife Badambai.
While washing utensils in the yard of the house, Badambai was likely to have touched the wire leading to her electrocution. Her huband, who must have tried to save her also died, Bhanwargarh SHO Dalpat Singh said.
The deceased couple’s two sons, who work as daily wage labourers, were away from home at work at the time of incident, he added.
When one of the sons reached home from work on Monday morning, he found the two bodies in the yard and informed police.
The police handed over the two bodies to family members after postmortem and lodged a case of unnatural death under Section 174 of CrPC for further investigation, the SHO said.
