Santosh Singh, the ‘dead man’ who hit the headlines recently for filing papers for presidential election has got a ray of hope now.u00a0UP Chief Minister, Akhilesh Yadav has reportedly ordered a probe into the matter to investigate how he was declared ‘dead’ and asked the UP police to file FIRs against all those who conspired against Singh.

Singh, a cook to Bollywood actor Nana Patekar, shot to fame two weeks ago when he filed his nomination papers against Pranab Mukherjee and P A Sangma for presidential elections to highlight his case.