India, May 19 -- A 37-year-old man died after falling into a shaft from the 15th floor of a residential society in Sector 52 on Sunday morning after allegedly losing balance while cleaning a carpet, police said on Monday.

The deceased, from Jammu and Kashmir, was posted as an assistant manager with Jammu and Kashmir Bank's Shahdara branch in Delhi and lived with his wife and two minor children in an apartment on the 12th floor of a tower in Sushant Estate, police officials said. They added that a majority of apartments in the society are leased to Jammu and Kashmir Bank for the accommodation of its employees.

According to police, the incident took place around 10am on Sunday. A senior police official said the man was cleaning air-condit...