Overview
- Police say the fatal shock occurred on Thursday when the 44-year-old collapsed while operating a fodder‑cutting machine near his home in Chikhli village, Ashti tehsil.
- The victim was identified as Shahaji Laxman Aware, a local farmer who had been tending and bathing his bullocks as part of Pola festival rituals before preparing their feed.
- Family and neighbours rushed Aware to the rural hospital in Ashti where doctors pronounced him dead; a postmortem was carried out and the body handed to his kin.
- All published accounts draw on a PTI dispatch quoting local police and officials and were republished by multiple outlets without independent on‑scene reporting.
- The case underlines the safety gap between farm machinery and rural power supplies and could prompt local demand for clearer safety checks and guidelines for electrical equipment used on farms.