Pune: Horse injured, vehicles damaged as hoarding collapses due to strong winds

A horse was injured and a few vehicles were damaged after a hoarding collapsed due to strong winds in Maharashtras Pune city police said reported news agency PTIHoarding collapses in Pune Billboard crashed outside a wedding hallThe billboard crashed to the ground between 5 pm and 6 pm on Saturday outside a wedding hall near Kavdi Pat toll booth on the PuneSolapur Highway an official said reported PTIThe incident comes days after a giant illegal billboard in Mumbais Ghatkopar area collapsed on a petrol pump due to gusty winds and unseasonal rains killing 16 persons and injuring 75Hoarding collapses in Pune Horse injured vehicles damagedCiting preliminary information about the incident in Pune the police on Saturday said the hoarding collapsed due to strong winds and it fell on a horse and a few vehicles including one brought by a band party outside the Gulmohar Lawns wedding hall reported PTIThe injured horse was rescued and taken for treatment the official said reported PTIHoarding collapses in Pune Other incidentsMeanwhile the investigation into the Ghatkopar hoarding collapse incident has been transferred to the crime branch of Mumbai Police an official said on Friday reported PTIEarlier in the day accused Bhavesh Bhinde director of the Ego Media advertising agency which had erected the hoarding that collapsed on a petrol pump on Monday evening and claimed 16 lives was sent in police custody till May 26 by a local courtThe probe was transferred to the crime branch considering its scope a senior police official told PTIBhinde booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under IPC section 304 was arrested in Jaipur on Thursday reported PTIAs per the investigation he fled the city on the night of the incident May 13 and went to Lonavala by car with a driverOn May 14 he went to Panvel from where he travelled to Ahmedabad by train A police team sent to Ahmedabad found that the accused had left for Udaipur Bhinde was then tracked to a hotel in the Rajasthan city where he had booked a room in the name of his nephew Bhavin Pujara reported PTIThe crime branch team recovered five mobile phones and six SIM cards from his possessionEgo Media Pvt Ltd had not obtained permission from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC to erect the hoarding on Government Railway Police GRP land the police official said reported PTIAlso the firm did not conduct a structural audit of the place before installing the hoarding and used substandard material for the work he said reported PTIMeanwhile a report prepared by the Director General of GRP about the hoarding collapse incident was forwarded to the Maharashtra home department on Thursday officials saidWith inputs from PTI