A youth identified as Kshirod Acharya was electrocuted after coming in contact with a live electric wire connected to a flower garden at the Khandapada block colony premises in Nayagarh district on Sunday morning.
Unaware of the impending danger, Kshirod set out of his house early morning as usual to pluck flowers. However, he was electrocuted after coming in contact with the plant.
locals rescued him and rushed him immediately to the nearest hospital, where he was declared dead on arrival.
Following the incident, enraged locals staged a road blockade at Fire Station Square by putting the body on the Nayagarh-Khandapada road. They demanded arrest of the culprit and adequate compensation to the kin of the deceased.
Meanwhile, people handed over one Krushna Pattanaik, who works as block office driver, to police suspecting him to have charged the flower garden with electric power.
It is suspected that someone had connected live wire to the garden to keep away people from stealing flowers.