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HYDERABAD: A suspected thief had a fatal fall from an apartment in West Venkatapuram area in Alwal in the wee hours of Tuesday. The incident, which happened at Aruna Sri apartment, came to light when the residents saw a man in yellow shirt and blue jeans lying in a pool of blood near the parking area in the apartment.

The residents immediately alerted the police about the incident. “We verified the CCTV camera footages of the apartment. In the CCTV footage, we saw the victim entering an elevator of the apartment in a highly intoxicated condition at around 1am,” Alwal inspector V Srikanth Goud said.

In the camera footage, police saw the victim falling from the fifth floor corridor while looking for a way to enter a flat. The victim sustained critical head injuries and died on the spot. “We are yet to establish the identity of the victim,” the inspector said. A case was registered under Section 174 (suspicious death) of the Code Of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).

In a separate incident, a 45-year-old woman identified as Padma, wife of a centering worker, from Akbarpura area in Tolichowki was found unconscious on the road at Masab Tank on Tuesday. Initially police thought she might have attempted to commit suicide by jumping off the flyover or she could be a road accident victim. However, after a medical examination no injuries were found on her body.

Doctors informed cops that she had consumed toddy. No case was registered and the woman is out of danger, Humayunnagar inspector NLN Raju said.

