close
close

Porsche accident: New complaint against father and grandfather of minor in alleged fraud case | News from Pune

Another First Information Report (FIR) has been filed against the father and grandfather of the juvenile accused in the Porsche accident case. Pune-based real estate entrepreneur Mushtaq Momin filed this FIR at Kondhwa police station on Thursday.

According to the FIR, the minor’s father and grandfather, two well-known construction workers from Pune, had promised Momin Rs 1.5 crore if he could settle a dispute over their land in Kondhwa in 2019.

They allegedly gave Momin Rs 1.8 million in advance for the work. However, after he settled the dispute and gave them the land in Kondhwa, they allegedly refused to give him the remaining amount of Rs 1.32 million.

When Momin demanded the money, they allegedly threatened him. He then filed a complaint with the police. He also filed a complaint against them in the Lashkar Court in Pune. However, they allegedly forced Momin to withdraw the complaint by threatening him with his life, the FIR states.

The police have now filed charges against three people from the minor’s family, including his father and grandfather, under sections 420, 406, 504, 506, 120-B, 392 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Festive offer

On Thursday, police had arrested the minor’s father and grandfather for their alleged involvement in abetting the suicide of a businessman’s son in Wadgaon Sheri on January 9 this year. An FIR in the case was registered at Chandan Nagar police station on a complaint by the businessman, who runs a construction company in Pune, about his son’s suicide on January 12 this year.

The father and mother of the accused minor driver are in police custody in the Porsche car crash case. The minor boy on May 19 allegedly drove the Porsche at high speed under the influence of alcohol when the car collided with a bicycle and two software developers who were on the two-wheeler died.

short article insertion

The police filed three FIRs in connection with the case. The first FIR was filed against the minor at Yerwada police station on the day of the accident. The boy was then taken to Sassoon Hospital for medical examination, where his blood sample was allegedly replaced with that of his mother.

Police arrested his father, mother, Dr Ajay Taware – former head of the forensic department of Sassoon Hospital, Dr Shrihari Harnol – who was an emergency doctor at the time, and a Class IV employee, Atul Ghatkamble, on charges of altering the minor’s blood sample by accepting financial favours.

Police also arrested two men, Ashpak Basha Makandar of Dhanori and Amar Santosh Gaikwad of Yerawada – who allegedly acted as middlemen between the accused juvenile driver’s father and two doctors and an employee of Sassoon Hospital – for exchanging the minor’s blood sample. A court had remanded the duo and the minor’s parents in police custody till June 10 and the other three till June 7.

While the youth is in an observation home till June 12, CID investigators produced Dr Taware, Dr Harnol, Ghatkamble and Amar Gaikwad before a special court on Friday afternoon. The court ordered judicial custody of all four. Deputy Commissioner of Police Sunil Tambe told the court that they reserved the right to take Gaikwad into custody later for investigation. Police are examining his mobile phone data and CCTV footage.

The Father was initially arrested along with the owner and managers of the two restaurants where his minor son had allegedly consumed alcohol before the accident, in the second FIR filed by the police under sections of the Juvenile Justice Act.

Meanwhile, the minor’s grandfather, who is currently in judicial custody in Yerwada Central Jail, and his father were arrested in the third FIR filed by a driver employed by the family, who alleges that the two kidnapped him and forced him to take the blame for the May 19 accident.

© The Indian Express Pvt Ltd

First uploaded on: 07-06-2024 at 20:34 IST