India, Aug. 27 -- PThe Pune Municipal Corporation's General Body on Tuesday withdrew a policy seeking to temporarily regularise unauthorised overhead cables in the city for one year, despite the proposal having been approved by the standing committee.

The decision puts a question mark over the civic body's plan to bring telecom, internet, and broadband companies' overhead cables under a temporary regulatory framework. Civic circles also view the move as a setback for standing committee chairman Shrinath Bhimale.

Bhimale had maintained that overhead cables were disfiguring the city and posed a safety risk to citizens. The policy proposed giving companies a one-year deadline to shift them underground, with the PMC providing a single-windo...