Docu filmmaker dies of electrocution in Delhi market due to sheer callousness

New Delhi, Jul 22: Thirty-three year old documentary film maker Anand Bhaskar Morla was electrocuted on Saturday by a high-voltage current from an air-coditioner perched on an iron railing outside a jewellery shop in Delhi's Sri Aurobindo Market.He died in front of his grand mother-in-law and wife. The shopowner's AC was linked to exposed wires wound around the iron railing, and as Morla came out of a local Bank of India branch, he pushed open the gate of the railing and was instantly electrocuted. His wife Supriya and his three year old son were waiting inside the car, as Morla came out with his grandmother-in-law, and the filmmaker was instantly electrocuted. The old woman screamed, as Morla fell on the ground. Passersby rushed in and liften him from the ground. The ordeal did not end there. Even though Supriya found an ambulance on time to rush her husband, she was caught in the traffic chaos that occured during the rains. "When I reached Safdarjang Hospital 25 minutes later, I found the ambulance parked outside the hospital and my husband stillinside it. Precious time was wasted and when the doctors finally attended to him, he was already critical", said a sobbing Supriya. Morla completed a film making course from Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais in Paris, and did several films for BBC, indiafixer.com and other media houses. South Delhi police have registered a case of negligence.