Cops rescue motorcyclist from Mula-Mutha embankment; tree falls on woman

As heavy rains lashed the city, a Pune city police team rescued a motorcyclist from the embankment of the Mula Mutha river across the bridge on Kharadi-Keshav Nagar road on Thursday evening.

Police identified the motorcyclist as Nawaz Khurshid Kotwal (38), a resident of Chandan Nagar. According to the police, an alert was issued by the authorities after water was released into the river from Khadakwasla dam following heavy rains on Tuesday.

So a team of Kharadi police station, led by assistant police inspector Siddhanath Khandekar, was closing the bridge on the embankment on the Mula-Mutha river. Cops spotted a motorcyclist on the embankment and sought help from the Pune Fire Brigade. But as the water level was rising continuously, the cops entered the river and rescued the motorcyclist using a rope and forming a humanchain.