4 min readJul 11, 2026 08:38 AM IST “The weather is very nice. Enjoy the rain.” Those were the last words 23-year-old Ghaziabad resident Narendra Kacchi said to his elder brother, Kamlesh, on Thursday afternoon. Less than an hour later, Kamlesh came to know that Narendra. also called as Bablu, had died of electrocution near a waterlogged park in Ghaziabad. The news had first travelled nearly 600 km to their village in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhatarpur district and then to Kamlesh, a plumber who lives in Indirapuram. “I got a call from my mother asking me to check on him,” said Kamlesh. Narendra, a caretaker of a building who also washed cars, died around 3 pm after allegedly coming in contact with an electrified, waterlogged stretch near a transformer. Local residents said Narendra and another man were walking out of a waterlogged park when they crossed accumulated water around a transformer located at the exit. A purported video of the incident, widely circulated on social media, shows Narendra collapsing after suffering an electric shock, while the …