The man, who had been married for a year, had a fight with his wife after which she left the apartment in Jumierah Lake area. He then jumped from the balcony and died on the spot, local media reported quoting a senior police official.
"This is a suicide and not homicide," Brigadier Khalil Ebrahim Al Mansouri, director of the Dubai police Criminal Investigation Department (CID), was quoted as saying by media.
Mansouri said that initial investigations and forensic examinations revealed that there was no suspicion of criminal act behind the incident.
The body of the man, who was not identified, was sent for forensic examination while the police are investigating the incident.
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