If a person’s wife is knocking on the door when he’s in bed with a call girl, chances of his getting out of the situation unscathed are rather remote. After stalling for an hour, 54-year-old Surendra Harischandra Chauhan thought he saw a window, or rather, a balcony of opportunity. The fact that his flat was on the third floor led to the strategy ending in disaster.

Nose dive: 1 Surendra Chauhan was in bed with the call girl, Julie, when his wife returned home, unexpectedly, after visiting her parents
2 When Chauhan didn’t open the door despite his wife knocking for about an hour, she locked it from the outsideu00a0
3 Chauhan finally decided to escape through the balcony of his third floor flat. He tied two bed sheets together to use as rope, and then asked Julie to climb down firstu00a0
4 While trying to escape, Julie’s hand slipped and she fell to her death Illustration/Amit Bandre