Zirakpur, June 12 -- Panic gripped Dashmesh Nagar in Dhakoli after a man's body was found lying on a shop roof on Wednesday. The deceased, identified as Dharminder Nagendra Pandey, a painter from Maharashtra, had reportedly rented a room on the third floor of the same building just a day earlier.

According to police sources, Pandey is believed to have accidentally fallen from the third floor of an adjacent building. He is believed to have been sitting on the parapet when he lost his balance and suffered a fatal fall, sustaining serious head injuries.

He reportedly lay on the roof for several hours before being discovered. The body was found around 3 pm when a tenant on the second floor opened the rooftop door due to a power outage and f...