Superstition in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh sent a living man to a grave when he instead needed a hospital. The 58-year-old man got electrocuted by an overhead high-tension wire in his village on Thursday.

His body was severely burnt but the townsfolk, instead of taking him to a hospital, rushed to bury him and kept the badly injured man buried for five hours; courtesy superstitions.

Victim of civic apathy and a superstition Joga Singh died after suffering a great deal.

Due to electricity department's negligence, Joga Singh was electrocuted when the high-tension wire fell on him as he worked in his lawn. And due to superstitious people in his village, he breathed his last on Thursday.

A crowd of people convinced the family of Joga Singh that burying him can be his problem's cure. The family too bought the idea and there was no one who could convince the them otherwise.

An FIR has been registered against the electricity dept but no FIR yet against the people who let Joga Singh die because of their superstitions.