Pune Beat

Collegian dies in mishap
Puran Shakil Furniturewala, a 19-year-old collegian, was killed and his two friends seriously injured when their Tata Safari turned turtle after dashing against an electric pole in Lullanagar area at 5 a.m. on Monday.

Furniturewala and his friends, Shilpa Amar Makhija (20) and Divya Dipak Anand (21) from Bandra in Mumbai were driving on the Sahani Sujan Park road when he lost control over the car, police said.Furniturewala and his friends were taken to a hospital where he was declared dead. Makhija and Anand have

been admitted to a private hospital, police said.

Octroi windfall
The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC)’s octroi department recovered a whopping compounding fee of Rs 8.83 lakh from Baker and Gauges Company for evading duty on a grinding and boring machine weighing 9,700 kg.

A statement issued by Additional Municipal Commissioner Deepak Kapoor today stated that as part of `Operation Light’ campaign, the octroi department had intensified checking, during which they examined documents of the company which showed that octroi charges amounted to Rs 4.04 lakh on the machine worth Rs 1.33 lakh.