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Scared at sight of cops, drunken man falls off building

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Posted: Mar 10, 2009 at 2337 hrs IST

Mumbai A drunken man’s misunderstanding got him into trouble on Sunday when he fell down from the third floor of a building in Dadar. Francis Fernandes (45) was attempting to escape from the police, who were summoned by Fernades’ neighbour Dayashankar Sharma (40). Sharma believed that a thief was hiding in Fernandes’ flat and holding him hostage.

Fernandes who had consumed a lot of alcohol thought that the police had arrived to arrest him for consuming alcohol. Notocing the police outside his flat, Fernandes removed the glass pane of his window and attempted to climb down a drainage pipe. But, he lost the balance and fell down. He is presently recovering in KEM Hospital. His legs were fractured in the accident.

Fernandes is a taxi driver who resides in Ramshyam Wadi near Tilak Bahvan in Dadar (west). According to the Dadar police, he had allegedly started drinking after reaching home in the afternoon. He was in an inebriated state when the police reached there, said the police.

“At 6:30 pm, Sharma realised that a medicine box went missing from his house. He then started shouting thinking that a thief had entered his house. Later he then saw Fernandes’ door open,” said Assistant Police Inspector M Chavan.

“Despite repeated knocking at door of Fernandes’ home, he didn’t opened the door. Sharma thought that a thief had entered Fernades’ house. Thinking that his neghbour’s life was in danger, he called up the police. We sent a team of cops. Our officers stood outside Fernandes’ house and got ready to apprehend the ‘criminal’. When he saw the policemen though the keyhole, all Fernandes could think was to get out of the house to avoid the ‘arrest’. Suddenly, he removed the glass pane of a window and tried to climb down the drainage pipe. We heard a thud, when he slipped. So we rushed to the spot only to see him on the ground, injured. We rushed him to KEM Hospital,” said Chavan. Considering that the incident happened beacuse of misunderstanding, the Dadar police did’t register the case.

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