People say, love is blind, and as someone who has lost sight of a lot of things (and red flags) while in love, I wholeheartedly agree. However, even in that short or no sightedness, there are a few things that must never be overlooked. Someone’s marital status, for that matter.

You see, polygamy is good. To each his own, after all. But what makes it better is transparency. Because in the absence of that and in the presence of multiple partners, your ‘love’ is reduced to cheating and the consequences to that are never pretty.

As was the case recently in Jaipur when a man had to jump from the balcony of a fifth floor in order to avoid getting caught by his partner’s husband.

Now, most people at this point would either think back to a time they’ve done the same to avoid parents of a lover or even partner for that matter, but what they mustn’t have anticipated is that sometimes things can go terribly wrong.

Like in this case, where the alleged man who jumped, died after making that jump.

The deceased, 29-year-old and identified as one Mohsin was in a live-in relationship with a married woman and her minor daughter, however, the circumstances of this relationship were a tad bit unconventional.

Turns out, the woman had eloped with her lover from Nainital to Jaipur 2 years ago and was living in a rented flat in a building under Pratap Nagar police station. The husband, all this while, was still looking for his wife and traced her to Jaipur.

Upon visiting the wife, as the husband noticed Mohsin, things got intense and an intimidated Mohsin panicked and jumped from the balcony to escape his wrath. And while his wrath he did escape, what he couldn’t was his own misfortune.

Having been seriously injured, the man was taken to the SMS Government Hospital by his lover, where he died on Monday. After the incident, both the woman in question and her husband have been missing, as police are searching for them.

The body of the deceased was handed over to his family members after a post-mortem examination on Tuesday.