Two people were killed in a sad accident that happened in Pune's Kalyani Nagar on May 19. The Porsche was allegedly being driven by a 17-year-old who was under the influence when it crashed with a motorcycle.
The adolescent was seen getting out of the driver's side of a car while attending a college event in a video that surfaced just one day before to the horrifying accident. In the footage, three girls can be seen waiting for the boy and his male companion who appears to be in the passenger seat as they get out of the car. Three other lads join the girls, and the adolescent approaches them to say hello before going into the building with his friend.
It has been established by police sources that the adolescent was operating a vehicle on the day of the college function. A few hours later, he and his buddies celebrated his Class 12 results by going out to party in a ₹ 2.5-crore Porsche (students in Maharashtra's Class 11 and 12 attend a junior college). They visited two bars and consumed alcohol without authorization; in one of them, he built up a ₹ 48,000 tab. The two 24-year-old IT professionals were instantly killed when the teenager, along with two of his buddies, slammed the Porsche at least 150 kmph into the scooter in Pune's Kalyani Nagar. Ashwini Koshta, riding in the passenger seat, was launched 20 feet into the air, while Aneesh Awadhiya, the rider, collided with a parked automobile.
The accused's father has been working hard to safeguard their little child as the case gains national exposure and provokes anger over the juvenile justice board's seeming leniency.
Hours after the event, the JJB granted the teenager bail. In addition, it instructed him to compose a 300-word essay about traffic accidents; this request sparked a firestorm of criticism.
The JJB is made up of two state government-appointed members and one member from the court, according to WCD commissioner Prashant Narnavare. "We have established a committee to examine the general behavior of the JJB members nominated by the state government, in order to verify if standards were adhered to when delivering directives in the vehicle accident case," he declared. "The Juvenile Justice Act gives me the authority to look at the general behavior of the members who have been chosen by the state administration. In relation to the order that gave the juvenile bail following the accident, we have established a committee to evaluate the JJB members' general behavior," stated Narnavare.
He said that the committee was established right away following the issuance of the (bail) order. An additional committee consisting of three members is investigating the purported tampering of the young driver's blood samples. Police stated on Monday that the child's blood samples were thrown away and replaced with a different person's tests, which had no signs of alcohol.
"The investigation has shown that the juvenile's blood samples were substituted with those of another individual, and Dr. Taware was the one who ordered this to happen," he asserted.
Dr. Taware added that the juvenile's blood samples were disposed of in a trash can and substituted with the blood samples of an other individual. "The inquiry additionally demonstrated that the minor's dad had contacted Dr. Ajay Taware and made inducements for him to substitute the blood samples," Mr. Kumar asserted. The senior police official went on to say that they had taken a second sample of the youngster for DNA testing out of caution and had sent it to a different hospital. "The other hospital's report indicated that the juvenile's blood report at Sassoon Hospital was falsified because the blood samples from both reports did not match in DNA," the speaker stated. According to him, neither of the doctors knew that the police were going to take a second sample from the juvenile suspect. "An investigation is being conducted to determine whose blood samples were taken in order to substitute the juvenile's. We have found CCTV footage from the Sassoon Hospital, and more investigation is underway," Mr. Kumar stated.
He stated that the juvenile's case has been added to Indian Penal sections 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence), and other pertinent sections. He said, "We have included the juvenile's father as a co-accused in this case." The Juvenile Justice Board first gave the youngster bail and ordered him to write an essay about traffic accidents. However, after protesting the police's review application and receiving backlash, the youth was placed in an observation home until June 5. In relation to the accident, the teenager's grandfather and his realtor father have been taken into custody by the police.
The grandpa of the 17-year-old Porsche driver from Pune who ran two software engineers, Surendra Kumar Agarwal, was taken into custody by Pune police. Agarwal is accused of "kidnapping," aiding his builder son Vishal Agarwal in his escape, and pressuring the driver to accept responsibility for the collision.
Amitesh Kumar, the commissioner of Pune police, had previously stated that there is an effort to frame a driver rather than the youngster. He continued by saying that an attempt was made to replace drivers as quickly as possible in order to keep the youngster out of trouble.
It is accurate to say that the driver initially claimed to be the one operating the vehicle. We are looking into both this particular part and the circumstances behind the driver's statement. A change of driver was attempted during that time. "We are looking into this as well," Kumar had stated at a press briefing.
The Pune Police Commissioner denied rumors that the driver was in control of the vehicle and insisted that they had video evidence demonstrating the 17-year-old's driving of the expensive vehicle. It was allegedly Surendra Kumar and his son Vishal Agarwal who had abducted and held the driver captive. "By offering him a bungalow, they put pressure on him to take responsibility for the accident," The driver's cell phone was seized and held by the father-son team for a period of two days. The driver then gave his wife a call and told her about the situation. After the wife notified the police, a case was opened against them. The driver vanished from sight two days following the collision.
Things wouldn't be this bad if India's criminal justice system wasn't broken. The circumstances would be different if criminal trials were to be finished in a year and appeals were to be heard and decided in a subsequent year. Bartenders would be just as cautious when serving alcohol to children as parents would be when it came to giving them their car keys.