India, May 28 -- Blamed for the death of a 49-year-old after a tree fell on his bike, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) on Tuesday said that it had called a review meeting with the garden department a month ago wherein the latter was instructed to cut dead trees and dangerous branches after evaluating whether or not they really needed to be hacked.

Additional commissioner Prithviraj B P said, "I had personally taken a meeting with the garden department a month ago and issued instructions. I had asked the administration to cut dangerous trees and branches. At the same time, I had instructed the administration to evaluate whether or not it was really necessary to cut these trees and branches. I had instructed the administration not to c...