India, July 30 -- Three Pune police personnel, including a female sub-inspector (PSI), have been penalised after a departmental inquiry found that they had misused an official investigation tour by combining it with a sightseeing trip to the Kaas plateau in Satara district. The trio's annual salary increments have been withheld for two years as a disciplinary measure by the Pune police Commissionerate. The three police personnel have been identified as PSI Swaroopa Naikawade, hawaldar Shrihari Patil, and constable Komal Kamble. They are attached to Vishrambaug police station.

According to police sources, the three officers had been deputed to Satara in connection with an official investigation. However instead of restricting themselves t...