A 34-year-old man <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-news/article/lalbaug-ganeshotsav-tragedy-eight-year-old-girl-woman-killed-in-electrocution-four-others-injured-23650997" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">died after being electrocuted</a> by a metal window frame carrying current while talking on his mobile phone at his house in Maharashtra's Thane city, police said on Thursday.
The incident occurred at a chawl (row tenement) in the Manpada area on September 21.
The man, Mohit Rahul Bhavar (34), was speaking on his mobile phone when he inadvertently touched a nearby window frame, not realising it was live with current, a police official said.
He suffered a severe electric shock and was rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead, the official said.
The police registered an Accidental Death Report and were probing the source of the electrical leakage that charged the window frame.
<h2>Man dies of electrocution while testing banjo ahead of Ganesh immersion procession</h2>
In a separate incident, a 21-year-old man died after receiving an electric shock at his house here while testing musical equipment for a <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/news/india-news/article/karnataka-ganesh-immersion-tragedy-2-boys-killed-after-falling-from-tractor-23650801" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Ganesh immersion procession</a>, police said on September 17.
The deceased was identified as Aryan Sanjay Baidya (21), a resident of Ambedkar Chowk, Sathenagar, Wagle Estate.
According to police sources, the incident occurred around 3:30 PM on September 15. Aryan, who played the banjo, was testing the instrument by connecting its wiring directly into a wall socket.
His father was in another room repairing a drum (dhol). When Aryan's younger sister went to the inner room to fetch water, she found him lying unconscious on the floor.
The family rushed Aryan in an auto-rickshaw to a private hospital and later to the Civil Hospital where doctors declared him brought dead.
Police have registered an Accidental Death Report in the case.
<h2>Woman, kin assaulted over Ganesh immersion procession noise in Thane</h2>
Meanwhile, a group of people allegedly assaulted a woman and her family members after she asked them not to play loud drums during a <a href="https://www.mid-day.com/mumbai/mumbai-crime-news/article/thane-woman-four-others-allegedly-assaulted-over-loud-drums-during-ganesh-immersion-procession-23651621" target="_blank" rel="none noopener">Ganesh immersion procession in Maharashtra's Thane district</a>, police said on Thursday.
The police have registered a case against 12 individuals in connection with the incident, which occurred on the night of September 20 at the Subhash Nagar area in Ulhasnagar, they said.
The 35-year-old woman asked the group to move down the street while playing heavy drums during the immersion procession because the loud noise was disturbing her two children, aged 2 and 4 months, a police official said.
The group then assaulted the woman, her husband, brother-in-law and another acquaintance and also abused and threatened them, he said.
Based on the complaint, the police on Wednesday registered a case against 12 persons on charges of unlawful assembly, rioting, causing hurt, criminal intimidation, and intentional insult, the official said.
(With inputs from PTI)

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The man suffered a severe electric shock and was rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared him dead; police registered an Accidental Death Report and were probing the source of the electrical leakage that charged the window frame

Thane man dies of electrocution after touching live metal window frame while talking on phone

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