Porsche crash in Pune: Wife also asked driver to take the blame, shocking details emerge; all you need to know | Pune News

PUNE: The grandfather of the 17-year-old boy who was behind the wheel of the Porsche Taycan that killed two technicians last week was arrested on Saturday morning. He is accused of kidnapping, threatening and imprisoning the family driver at their Wadgaonsheri residence to force him to confess to the crime.

Shocking details have emerged about the ordeal the driver endured behind the scenes. Here’s everything you need to know:

• Pune Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar told TOI, “We have recorded the statement of the driver. He mentioned that the construction worker (boy’s father) called him at around 2.45 am on Sunday (after the accident).

• The contractor asked him to claim that he was behind the wheel of the car at the time of the accident.
• The construction worker’s wife emotionally asked him to take responsibility for the accident.

• The family members offered him various incentives to take on responsibility.
• After the accident, the minor, his friends and the driver were taken to the police station. Initially, the driver claimed that he was behind the wheel. However, the police did not believe him and filed a complaint against the minor, according to Pune police.
• The CP said, “Late on the night of May 19, the construction worker and his family members chased the driver while he was returning home. They forced him to sit in their car and drove him to their bungalow in Wadgaonsheri.
• The driver was forced to sit in a room and his phone was confiscated. No one was allowed to meet him.
• The next day, the driver’s wife went to the contractor’s bungalow to look for her husband. But she was not allowed to meet him. The contractor’s family members made her many “promises” and asked her to persuade her husband to take responsibility for the accident after she created a commotion there.
• Later that day, the driver was allowed to go home with a warning. He then went “undercover” for two days and resurfaced on Thursday. When we took him to the Criminal Investigation Department for questioning on Thursday, this aspect of the case came to light.