In a bizarre incident, a 40-year-old man was kept in a mortuary freezer for almost seven hours before he was taken out alive. According to reports, Srikesh Kumar, an electrician, was hit by a speeding motorbike following which he was taken to the district hospital on Thursday night. The doctors had declared him dead. The following day, the hospital staff put the body in the freezer.

Nearly seven hours later, when a 'panchnama' or document, signed by family members after identifying the body and agreeing to an autopsy - was to be filed by the police, Kumar's sister-in-law Madhu Bala noticed that he was showing signs of movement. In a video that went viral, Bala can be heard saying, "He's not at all dead. How did this happen? Look, he wants to say something, he is breathing."