Pune: A 34-year-old call centre employee drowned in the backwaters of Panshet dam while swimming on Tuesday morning. The deceased has been identified as Vimal Gupta, who worked in 
Yerawada. 

According to Pune rural police, Gupta along with nine others from his company had gone to Shirkoli near Panshet for a one-day trip when the incident happened. 

According to the police, they had booked Gunjan Farmhouse which had an empty swimming pool. The owner told them not to venture into dam waters and sought 15 minutes from them for filling up the swimming pool. However, Gupta went swimming into deep waters and disappeared around 11 am following which his friends raised an alarm. The villagers fished out his body around 2 pm. 

Gupta married two years ago and had a six-month-old daughter.