India, April 11 -- A helicopter hired by Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal landed at the wrong spot, in a parking lot, in Pune's Purandar area on Saturday morning, a kilometre away from the assigned helipad.

The reason was not expressly clear, but the incident created a scare as it comes less than three months after deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar's death in a plane crash.

"My pilot landed wrongly in a parking lot. All of us are safe," said Bhujbal, who had gone there to attend a programme on 200th birth anniversary of social activist Jyotiba Phule.

A senior officer of the Pune rural police said they will report the matter to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation and the pilot "will have to face action".

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