With no work this week, Bar­rack­pore au­to re­pair­man Reachard Ali was bored at home, so on Tues­day, he de­cid­ed to go fish­ing at a near­by agri­cul­tur­al pond.

Sad­ly, he suf­fered a seizure and fell in­to the pond where he drowned. About two hours lat­er his body was found by his broth­er Naushad Ali.

At his Re­al­ize Road home yes­ter­day, his broth­er-in-law Im­ran Ho­sein said he worked at a near­by garage but he had no work this week.

“So he is a per­son he like to be out­go­ing, he love to do stuff. So go­ing fish­ing in the back was some­thing nor­mal, he would al­ways do that. Yes­ter­day, he got ex­treme­ly bored and he de­cid­ed he want to go and catch fish which is some­thing nor­mal be­cause he al­ways go to catch fish.” How­ev­er, Ho­sein said Ali suf­fered from seizures for which he was no med­ica­tion.

Ho­sein said Ali left home around 4.30 pm to go by the pond lo­cat­ed about 300 me­tres to the back of his home.

“We sus­pect that as soon he went down he got a seizure and he fell in­to the pond im­me­di­ate­ly.”

Ho­sein re­ceived a call around 6 pm from Naushad who said he was not see­ing Ali and was go­ing to look for him.

He said a man told Naushad that his broth­er was down by the pond.

“His broth­er run down the hill. When he reach by the bank now, all he saw was the road, his slip­pers and his hat on the bank it­self. He use he head, he say if all his stuff here he had to be in the pond. So he made a dive but he did not find him be­cause it is a sloped area.”

He said Naushad came back up and dove deep­er in­to the pond.

“So when he gone down all he feel was his foot. His foot was ac­tu­al­ly up but you could not see it in the wa­ter, it was straight down.”

They called the am­bu­lance and the para­medics gave them in­struc­tions. He said a fire­man who lives near­by per­formed CPR, but they could not re­vive him. De­scrib­ing him as a very nice and help­ful per­son, he said Ali, 36, was not mar­ried and had no chil­dren. He lived with his moth­er. An au­top­sy con­firmed that he suf­fered a seizure, but his death was due to drown­ing.

His fu­ner­al ser­vice would be held to­day at his home fol­lowed by the in­ter­ment at a near­by ceme­tery. (SW)