“They grew up together and were inseparable,” said Prasad Bhandari, a real estate dealer and the grieving father of Yash Bhandari (23), a software engineer who was killed in a car crash along with his cousin Rutvik Bhandari (23), an MBA graduate, and their teenage friend Khushwant Kishor Tekwani (19).

The three youths died after their speeding car rammed into a pillar of the Bund Garden police station around 5 am on Sunday. Police identified the deceased cousins as Rutvik Vinayak Bhandari alias Om, a resident of Pimpri Gaon and an MBA graduate in finance who worked for a private firm; and Yash Prasad Bhandari, a software engineer employed with a firm in Balewadi. Their friend, Khushwant Kishor Tekwani from Beed district, was a BTech student at MIT College in Pune .

“The two were born j

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