Porsche accident in Pune: Police want to prevent teenager from being released from prison | News from Pune

PUNE: The state home department on Saturday allowed the Pune police to approach the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court’s June 25 order directing the release of the 17-year-old, who was involved in the May 19 Porsche Taycan car crash, from an observation house.

Deputy superintendent of police (crime) Shailesh Balkawade told TOI, “We filed an application with the state government on June 26 stating that the high court order needs to be challenged on certain grounds. The government on Saturday gave its approval for filing a special permission application and we will file such an application in the high court soon.”

A senior police officer, who wished to remain anonymous, said they would submit the SLP focusing on some key points.

“First, the juvenile court had released the teenager after the accident on May 19, but later revoked its release order. Second, the juvenile court did not violate any of the provisions mentioned in the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act. Third, the teenager’s family is not able to care for him under the circumstances and custody of the minor cannot be given to the family members.”

Finally, the official said, “The teenager’s aunt had filed a habeas corpus petition in the Supreme Court, but the petition cannot be maintained as it is fully clear to the family members and others that the boy was in the observation home in Yerawada.”

On June 25, the Supreme Court ordered the release of the juvenile driver from the observation home, saying that the JJB’s orders cancelling the bail, sending the juvenile to an observation home and further extending his remand there were illegal and without jurisdiction.

The teenager was allegedly drunk and driving a Porsche Taycan when the car rammed into a motorcycle in Kalyaninagar at around 2:30 am on May 19. The accident killed two motorcycle-riding software engineers from Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.

The Supreme Court said: “The immediate reaction to the accident, the knee-jerk reaction and the public outcry did not take into account the age of the CCL.”

Advocate Prashant Patil, representing the teenager, told TOI, “Once the police files the SLP, the Supreme Court will issue a notice to my client. We will examine the points raised by the Pune police and then present our side in court.”