Police suspect that he met with an accident while riding a motorbike.
District police said that some local people found Pawar lying on a road near BJP College with injuries to head at around 3 am.
They took him to nearby hospital where he was declared dead on arrival.
"His two-wheeler was lying nearby. We suspect that he met with an accident as the bike too was damaged," said an officer of Lonikand police station.
Gargi Pawar, a promising young tennis player from the city, had won ATF Asian U-14 Series Tennis Tournament in Hyderabad last year.
Her father, resident of Karve Nagar area in Pune, owned a furniture business.
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