PUNE: A 20-year-old student (20) from Santacruz in Mumbai was feared drowned after falling 25 feet into the Gidad waterfall behind the Bhushi dam in Lonavala around 5pm on Monday.
The Pune rural police and volunteers of the Shiv Durg Mitra conducted a search operation as the student, Sahil Jagdish Saroj, was swept away by the gushing water soon after the fall. "We concluded our search around 7pm and will resume it early Tuesday morning," inspector Sitaram Dubal of the Lonavla (city) police said.
