In a dramatic incident, a wanted accused allegedly attempted to evade the police by scaling down from the 10th-floor balcony of a building in Mira Road area of Thane district in Maharashtra, an official said.

According to the police, the accused was wanted by the Hyderabad Police in a Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act and he had been living in a building under the jurisdiction of Kashimira Police Station in Mira Road. The Hyderabad police had arrived to apprehend the accused, but in a bid to escape, he tried to scale down the building.