The father of a teenage driver from Pune had an elaborate escape plan. How he was caught

According to reports, the Porsche was traveling at a speed of almost 200 km/h at the time of the accident

Pune:

The father of the 17-year-old teenage driver from Pune, whose late-night drunken Porsche spree claimed the lives of two 24-year-old engineers, had hatched an elaborate escape plan, but police tracked him down.

Soon after an FIR was lodged against him for letting his teenage son drive the luxury car, the prominent real estate agent from Pune went on the run. To mislead the police, he left home in his car and asked the driver to take the road to Mumbai. He told another driver to go to Goa in his other car. On his way to Mumbai, he got out of the car and drove a friend’s car towards Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, formerly known as Aurangabad. Police say multiple cars were involved in an attempt to confuse police about where he was going. The real estate agent also started using a new SIM card so police couldn’t trace his number, police said.

When the police came to know that he was in his friend’s car, they started tracking the vehicle through GPS. A team from Pune Crime Branch then identified him from CCTV footage on the route. Finally, the cops arrested the real estate agent in a night raid at a lodge in Sambhajinagar. He will be produced in court today.

The Porsche accident that occurred on Saturday evening sparked nationwide outrage after the teenager was released on bail within 15 hours under conditions many described as flimsy. A local court ordered him to write a 300-word essay about accidents, cooperate with traffic police for 15 days and undergo therapy for his alcohol addiction.

Police have now asked the Youth Criminal Justice Authority for permission to try the teenager, aged 17 years and eight months, as an adult. A decision on this plea is also expected today.

Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshtha, both from Madhya Pradesh, were returning from a meeting on their bikes when the Porsche hit them from behind at a speed reportedly of 200 km/h. Both IT engineers died on the spot.

Their families criticized the teen driver’s quick release on bail, describing the incident as a “murder, not an accident.” The teenager and his two friends were returning from a pub when the accident occurred. Police also arrested owners of two bars and a staff member for serving alcohol to the minor.

Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar told NDTV last night that they have a “watertight case”. “We have technical evidence coupled with corroborating evidence to build a watertight case so that this accused is punished as per relevant sections of the law,” he said.