India, June 22 -- A 25-year-old contractual worker died of electrocution while cleaning machinery at the Delhi Jal Board's (DJB) Chandrawal water treatment plants near Majnu Ka Tilla in north Delhi's Civil Lines on Friday, police said on Saturday.

Deputy commissioner of police (north) Raja Banthia said, "On Friday, we received information from Sant Parmanand Hospital regarding a patient named Sanju Yadav, who was declared brought dead. The medico-legal certificate stated death due to electrocution while working at the Chandrawal water treatment plants."

A police team visited the hospital and then the site of the incident. "Upon enquiry, it was ascertained that Yadav was employed as a contract labourer at Chandrawal Water Works. On Frida...