PUNE: A 21-year-old youth from Khadki, who had gone for a picnic near the Pavana dam on Sunday, drowned in the backwaters.
Meanwhile, the Pune rural police, took action against over 500 revellers at different tourist spots across the district, including Lonavla, Khandala, Maval, Bhor, Velha, Junnar, Panshet and Sinhagad fort on Saturday and Sunday.
The victim Shubham Dudhal, his brother and six friends had gone to the Pavana dam area for a picnic on Sunday. “Around noon, Dudhal and some friends entered the water to swim. When Dudhal started drowning, his friends raised an alarm. Some locals attempted to save him, but couldn’t,” the officer said. Dudhal’s body was brought out after a two-hour-long search, the officer added.
A senior officer from the Pune rural police said over 500 people were fined at different tourist spots. “We had deployed extra manpower at the tourist spots and prevented people for going there,” the officer said.
He said in Lonavla, over 100 people had been fined. “These revellers were fined for not wearing masks and for not following social distancing norms,” the officer said. The deputy CM and the district guardian minister Ajit Pawar on Friday had said many people had been visiting the tourist spots in the district, which was not permitted because of the Covid-19 pandemic. He had also directed the police to take action against such people.
Meanwhile, the Lonavla city police on Saturday evening arrested four men from Chakan and Shirur for creating ruckus on the road and also breaking a window glass of the traffic branch. The police said the four men were drunk. “Our team stopped their vehicle at the Kumar Chowk and took them to the traffic branch. One of them broke the window glass of the chowkey,” the officer said.
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