Vikas Tyagi, a Delhi University (DU) assistant professor who had come home to Moradabad in Uttar Pradesh during the lockdown, was electrocuted after rainwater entered his house in the city on Saturday night.
According to the family, Tyagi, 37, came in contact with a live wire and died on the spot.
Tyagi was an assistant professor in the Department of Physics, Bhaskaracharya College of Applied Sciences, DU, and is survived by his wife, a 12-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son.
The family that lives in Dwarka's sector 2 and had come down to their ancestral house in Moradabad during the lockdown.
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