Car crash in Pune: Mother of teenager blames doctors, minor admits to being drunk

The accused in the Pune car crash that killed two IT professionals on May 19, a minor boy, has finally admitted to being drunk. However, the teenager said he could not fully remember the incidents. The accused will be kept in an observation home until June 5 while the investigation continues.

His parents, Shivani Agarwal and Vishal Agarwal, were produced in the court today where the investigating officer informed the court that the parents of the 17-year-old accused had tried to protect the child and that the blood samples had been taken from the mother and not the accused. This was revealed and confirmed by the report of the Maharashtra State Regional Forensic Laboratory. The duo has been remanded in police custody till June 5.

In a statement to police, Shivani said doctors had asked her to give blood samples.

“We have recorded the statement of the woman (49). She told us that the doctors at the hospital had told her to give her blood as a sample instead of that of her son. She pretended not to know why the doctors told her this,” a report in the Times of India quoted Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar as saying.

On May 19, the drunken 17-year-old boy killed two IT professionals in his Porsche in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar area while the two were travelling on a motorcycle. The boy did not have a valid driving licence. The police have filed three separate FIRs in connection with the case – one for the accident, the second against the bar for serving alcohol to the minor and the third for wrongfully detaining the accused’s relatives to blame the family driver for the accident.

The names of some senior politicians from Maharashtra have also surfaced in the media in connection with the case. The state’s Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has been constantly defending Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) MP from Vadgaon Sheri, Sunil Tingre.

“Did Sunil Tingre try to suppress the matter? The allegations against him are baseless,” Ajit Pawar was quoted as saying in media reports.

(With contributions from agencies)