Summary:
Mr.
Porwal, a 1983-batch IAS officer, was serving as ACS (Industries) before joining the Home Department. However, the team bringing Mr.
Porwal back to Mumbai struggled manoeuvring through the heavy weekend traffic on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway. Mr.
Porwal suffered multiple fractures in the ribs and injuries to the abdomen. “It took almost seven hours to reach Mumbai while the team took the old Mumbai-Pune Highway. Senior government officials said the Maharashtra Police had to create a green corridor to ferry the IAS officer back to Mumbai, where he was admitted to Bombay Hospital in an unconscious condition..