India, Jan. 29 -- A 43-year-old labourer died after he accidentally fell off the balcony of an under renovation second floor flat at a high-rise residential apartment in east Delhi's Indraprastha (IP) Extension, said police on Wednesday, adding that he was carrying out plastering and false ceiling work.

Police identified the deceased as Ganesh Kumar, a resident of Bodra village in Uttar Pradesh's Ambedkar Nagar district.

Additional commissioner of police (ACP) (east) Abhishek Dhania said on Sunday, the Mandawali police station received a call regarding injury to a labourer, who had fallen from a height at Tarang Apartment in IP Extension.

"A police team reached the spot and Kumar was initially taken to Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) hospita...