A 25-year-old man, who allegedly tried to break into a locked apartment in Gujarat, was trapped on a balcony was rescued by fire officials and handed over to the Varachha police on Monday evening.

According to the police, the incident took place at the Diwali Baug residential society in Varachha late Monday afternoon when residents noticed the man behaving “suspiciously”. Some passersby raised an alarm, suspecting him to be a thief. As people began chasing him, the man ran into a five-storey building.

He then “ran up the staircase and entered a third-floor flat whose main door was open”. The flat belonged to Naresh Kakadiya, who was away at the time, leaving his wife Smita alone. On hearing shouts from outside, Smita went to check and “found a stranger” inside the house. When she screame

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