A man who was an accused in a cheating case died on Tuesday after he jumped from the fifth floor of a building in Asif Nagar while trying to evade being apprehended.
The victim has been identified as Kaleemuddin, a resident of Asif Nagar. The Dundigal police had arrived in the area to nab him in connection with a cheating case, in which he allegedly took money from victims on the pretext of sending them to a West Asian country, but failed to do so .
According to Dundigal inspector P Ramana Reddy, the incident happened around 6 a.m. when a team of policemen went to nab the accused. He fell from the fifth floor and died instantaneously.
“A case under Section 420 (of the Indian Penal Code) was filed against him for cheating a woman on the pretext of securing a visa to Dubai. When a team from this police station went to arrest him, he fell from the fifth floor while escaping and died,” he said.
