Falling from the cuckoo's nest: Pune man plummets to death after eating pigeon eggs

In a strange case of accidental death, a 35 -year-old man died after falling from a terrace of his flat. The strange thing about the incident is that the wife of the deceased told police that the man had stolen eggs from pigeon nest, ate omelette made of those eggs along with alcohol after which he started acting weird and fell off the terrace. 

The incident took place in upmarket Vimannagar area on Tuesday night at around 10.30 pm. The deceased has been identified as Arnab Mukhopadhyay and he was working at a mobile phone service provider company. He was staying with his wife in Vimannagar area. When the incident took place, his wife was at home. 

Inspector Dilip Shinde, in charge of Vimannagar police station said, "The deceased's wife has given us the statement that on Tuesday night, her husband took out the eggs which pigeons had laid near the terrace. He made omelette of those eggs. While eating the omelette, he was also consuming alcohol."

"According to the statement of the woman, after consuming omelette and alcohol, he started behaving weirdly. The woman tried to control him but he did not listen to her and entered into the terrace of their flat. Before the woman could bring him back, he fell down from the terrace and died," Shinde said. 

According to police, it is not yet clear that if the man jumped off the terrace or he lost the balance and fell down. Police have now registered a case of accidental death in this regard.