Noida, January 4, 2026: A 55-year-old man tragically fell to his death from a high-rise residential building in Noida’s Sector 104 on Sunday while attempting to find a better mobile network signal, police said. The deceased has been identified as Ajay Garg, an executive director with the Indian Oil Corporation in Delhi.

According to preliminary reports, Garg was staying at the ATS One Hamlet housing society with his wife. The incident occurred after he stepped out onto the balcony of his seventeenth-floor apartment following poor network connectivity on his mobile phone. Garg had received a call shortly after speaking with his wife and reportedly went in search of a stronger signal. Moments later, he fell from the balcony.

Residents of the housing society noticed Garg lying unresponsive on the ground and immediately contacted emergency services. He was rushed to a private hospital in Sector 110, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Police confirmed that the body has been sent for post-mortem examination to ascertain the exact cause of death.

Initial findings suggest that the fall was accidental. “Preliminary investigation indicates that the death occurred due to a sudden fall,” a police official said, as reported by NDTV. Authorities are reviewing CCTV footage from the housing complex and surrounding areas, and family members are being questioned to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the tragedy.

Ajay Garg and his wife were originally from Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. Their son resides in Mumbai.

In an unrelated incident in the National Capital Region, a 21-year-old man was allegedly shot at after objecting to a group of men drinking near his house in DLF Dilshad Extension-2 in Sahibabad. Police said the suspects are currently at large.

The incident in Noida has sent shockwaves through the residential community, highlighting the unforeseen dangers associated with high-rise living.

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