Woman electrocuted in Surat after farmers connect barbed wire fence to power line

A 45-year-old woman farm labourer was electrocuted after she came in contact with electric wire wrapped on barbed wires across an agricultural field to protect the standing crop from pigs in Gujarat’s Surat. The police have registered a complaint against the agricultural field owners and have started a probe.

Sources with the police said farmers Daniel Nayka and his brother Dharmesh Nayka had erected barbed wire across their sugarcane crop in Valanpur village in Surat’s Mahuva taluk. The farmer had also attached an electric line to it, with one of its ends touching the overhead high-tension power line passing through the fields.

Sources said that on Friday morning, when Rekhaben Nayka, their relative, went to the field to cut grass for her cattle,