A couple got electrocuted near their house in Soar village in Thane district today, police said.
The incident occurred in the morning hours when Harishchandra Vasant Virmal (27) came in contact with a live barbed wire outside his house in a chawl, said senior inspector of Padgha police station K C Pasalkar.
On hearing his cries, Harishchandra's wife Poonam rushed out of the house to help him but she also stepped on the live wire, he said.
The neighbours rushed the duo to hospital where they were declared dead before admission.
According to police, a brick kiln owner, identified as Dyaneshwar Dinkar, had illegally taken power supply for his unit by throwing a hook on a high transmission wire from a roadside electricity pole.
"The live wire fell on the barbed wire, which resulted in electrocution of the duo," said Pasalkar.
Police said that a case of culpable homicide not amounting to murder will be registered against Dinkar once the family members of the deceased filed a complaint.
