'Can I Break This': Pune Civic Body Officials Watch In Disbelief As Man Smashes TV

Pune: The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) staff apprehended a man who smashed a television set inside the PMC's main building. As he entered the building, he asked the staff, "Can I break this television set?" and then proceeded to smash it. The shocked staff nabbed him and called the Shivajinagar police, who later detained him. It was later revealed that the man was unemployed and struggling with depression.According to a TOI report, the man, a resident of Narhe, walked into civic health officer Dr. Nina Borade's third-floor office in the PMC main building around 5:30 PM on Tuesday. The police said that the man reached Nal Stop from Narhe in a vehicle before boarding the metro to get off at the PMC metro station. He then walked into the PMC main building and moved randomly through the headquarters for a few minutes.Senior Inspector Chandrashekhar Sawant said, "The 43-year-old man is unemployed, battling depression, and has been on medication for some time now. We frisked him and found many anti-depressant tablets and other medicines in his pocket. He had no work at the PMC head office nor any issues with any civic official or employee. We let him go after serving him a notice asking him to cooperate with our investigation as and when called by the police," as quoted by TOI.Sawant further said that the man went to the third-floor office of Borade, who was not present. "Seeing a few staff working, he asked them if he could break the television set and then smashed the screen with a stone," Sawant added, according to TOI. Ganesh Jadhav (34), a PMC staffer, lodged a complaint in this connection, as reported by TOI.