News on the Porsche accident in Pune: Big twist in the drunk teenager driving case: Police reveal how blood sample was tampered with

The investigation into the Pune Porsche accident case has taken a decisive turn after police revealed that two doctors at Pune’s Sassoon Hospital allegedly tampered with the blood sample of the 17-year-old boy involved in the accident. The doctors were arrested on Monday, May 27.

Here’s what we know so far:

The police commissioner said additional charges under sections 120 (B), 467 for forgery and 201, 213 and 214 for destruction of evidence have been included in the investigation. He explained, “We received the forensic report yesterday which revealed that the sample collected at Sassoon Hospital which the doctor had sealed and labelled with the name of the juvenile accused before sending it to the forensic department was not the juvenile’s sample… Subsequently, we arrested the doctors who were responsible for sealing and sending this report to the forensic department.”

During the preliminary investigation, the Commissioner said, it emerged that the blood sample originally collected at Sassoon Hospital was thrown into the hospital’s trash bin at around 11am on May 19 and replaced with another person’s blood sample and forwarded to the forensic laboratory.

CMO Srihari Halnor orchestrated this exchange, he said. “Further investigation revealed that Halnor was acting on the instructions of Sassoon’s head of the forensic department, Ajay Tawre.”

Two IT professionals died on Sunday, May 19, in a motorcycle accident involving a speeding Porsche allegedly driven by a minor. Police claim the teenager was drunk. He was initially granted bail, but following public protests and a police check, the minor was placed in an observation home until June 5.