A man was found bleeding and unconscious in an ATM kiosk on Canal South Road near Chingrighata on Wednesday afternoon.
Initially cops suspected he had been assaulted but footage of CCTV cameras inside the kiosk suggested he had tried to kick open the kiosk’s glass door and smashed it. Glass shards left him with multiple wounds as he tumbled inside and fell on the floor, police said.
Mohammad Zafar Ali, 34, a guard by profession and a resident of Beleghata, has been admitted to NRS hospital.
“Preliminary investigations showed he was drunk and he kicked the glass door very hard and the door gave in. Glass shards were shattered all over the place… he lost balance and fell
inside the kiosk and became unconscious,” an officer of Pragati Maidan police station said.
Canal South Road is lined with residential and commercial establishments and remains busy with pedestrian and vehicular movement.
People in the neighbourhood were the first to spot him bleeding and unconscious inside the kiosk and alert the police. Cops took him to hospital.
On regaining consciousness, Ali has corroborated the findings of the police, an officer said.