Getting tough on the civic staff for dereliction of municipal duties, the Pune civic body has suspended two engineers for neglecting their duties related to the unauthorised construction of two additional floors on a building in Baner.

Vijaykumar Thorat, Deputy Municipal Commissioner of Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), identified those suspended as junior engineer Shubhangi Tarukmare and deputy engineer Sandeep Misal.

“They are being suspended from municipal service, with immediate effect under provisions of the Maharashtra Municipal Corporations Act, for the purpose of departmental inquiry,” said Thorat.

The construction of two additional floors of a private building in Baner has been brought to the notice of the municipal commissioner. Work for the sixth and seventh floors has been

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