What the 17-year-old accused in the Pune Porsche crash told the police – Firstpost

The 17-year-old who drove his unregistered Porsche Taycan into a bicycle, killing two 24-year-old software developers, confessed to police in Pune that he was driving while drunk and therefore could not remember what happened on May 19, when the accident occurred.

A report by India today quoted sources as saying that the youth, who is currently in an observation home, told police that he was driving while heavily intoxicated at the time of the accident in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar area.

“I can not remember”

The teenager told the Pune Criminal Investigation Department that he could not fully remember all the incidents from the day of the accident.

The boy, son of influential real estate developer Vishal Agarwal, was released on bail by the juvenile court just 15 hours after the accident, under conditions that were widely criticised and described as “lenient”. He was ordered to write a 300-word essay, work in the traffic police for 15 days and undergo psychiatric treatment and counselling for his drinking addiction.

The JJB’s decision sparked widespread public outrage, with many, including the Pune Police, demanding that the youth be tried as an adult for this heinous crime.

The JJB later changed its order and sent him to an observation home.

Teenager squandered 48,000 rupees on alcohol

Footage recovered by police showed that the boy was drunk before the accident and had allegedly spent Rs 48,000 in one of the two pubs where he was celebrating his Class 12 graduation ceremony.

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Teenager’s blood sample swapped

After his arrest by the police, the teenager was taken to the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune for a medical examination. There, the doctors threw his blood sample in a container and switched it with his mother’s sample before sending it to the forensic laboratory for alcohol testing. This was allegedly done on the instructions of the minor accused’s father.

The boy’s father is said to have paid the doctors a bribe of Rs 300,000. He also made around 14 WhatsApp and Facetime calls with Dr. Ajay Taware, the head of the forensic medicine department at Sassoon General Hospital.

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Fugitive mother of Pune teenager arrested

On Sunday (June 2), the boy’s mother, Shivani Agarwal, was arrested by the police. She had fled from Pune as the case escalated and two doctors – Dr Shrihari Halnor and Dr Ajay Taware – were arrested.

She was taken into custody days after the teenager’s blood sample for an alcohol test at Sassoon Hospital was found to have been switched with that of a woman.

Ms. Agarwal was arrested for tampering with evidence and her presence at the hospital while blood tests were being conducted.

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Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said Ms Agarwal had feigned ignorance as to why doctors at Sassoon Hospital had asked her to give her blood sample and not that of her son.

“We 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 that,” says a report by Indian Times Amitesh Kumar was quoted as saying.

The Pune court on Sunday remanded Shivani Agarwal and Vishal Agarwal in police custody till June 5 in connection with a destruction of evidence case.

In addition to the boy’s parents, the police also arrested his grandfather.

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