India, Aug. 16 -- A 55-year-old man was electrocuted to death while cooking food at a spare parts manufacturing factory in Dilshad Garden, east Delhi on Wednesday afternoon, police said. Police said that the victim's cooking pan came in contact with a live wire in a switchboard next to where he was cooking and he was electrocuted.

The victim was identified as Shishu Pal, who worked and lived at the factory with his family members. He was originally from Aligarh in Uttar Pradesh.

According to police, their control room received a call from Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital about the incident. The hospital told police that the victim was brought in by his co-workers who said he had been electrocuted, police said. The man was declared dead on arri...