Rajasthan man has a cardiac arrest while reading newspaper, video goes viral

A viral video from Rajasthan captured a local man's final moments of distress, seeing him suffer through a cardiac arrest on a regular day in the city of Balotra.

61-year-old Dilip Kumar Madani, a resident of Pachpadra, suffered a heart attack while reading a newspaper outside a clinic in the city.

A garment businessman, Madani was in Barmer, visiting from Surat. After he felt his tooth aching, he went to local clinic in Balotra's Nayapura Mohalla where he suffered a cardiac arrest and fell over.


Hearing the sound of the man falling, the receptionist is seen helping him, following which the doctor in the clinic and two to three others come to his aid.


Madani was then sent to the Nahata Hospital in Balotra where he was declared brought dead.

In a statement, the victim's brother, Mahendra Madani, said that Dilip was perfectly healthy. His body was cremated on November 5, without a post-mortem