Pune Porsche Accident News Updates: The juvenile justice board is likely to pass an order on Wednesday, May 22, on an application of Pune police to try the 17-year-old accused as an adult. A Porsche car allegedly driven by the teenager, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers in Kalyani Nagar in Pune city in the early hours of Sunday.
Meanwhile, the father of the 17-year-old, Vishal Agarwal, a real estate developer, will also be produced before a court today. The police had registered a case against the teenager’s father under sections 75 and 77 of the Juvenile Justice Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Section 75 deals with “willful neglect of a child, or exposing a child to mental or physical illnesses,” while section 77 deals with supplying a child with intoxicating liquor or drugs.
According to the FIR lodged in connection with the incident, the man, despite knowing his son did not have a valid driving license, gave him the car, thus endangering the latter’s life. He also allowed his on to party despite knowing he consumes liquor.
The deceased were identified as Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both 24-year-old IT professionals hailing from Madhya Pradesh and working in Pune.
Latest Updates on Pune Accident:
• After an FIR was registered against Pune builder Vishal Agarwal for letting his 17-year-old son drive the luxury car, he tried to escape. According to a report in NDTV, Agarwal tried to mislead the police by leaving home in his car and asking the driver to take the road to Mumbai.
• The prominent Pune realtor reportedly told another driver to leave for Goa in his other car. On the way to Mumbai, he got off the car and used a friend’s car to proceed towards Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, earlier known as Aurangabad.
• NDTV stated that multiple cars were involved to confuse the cops on where he was headed, police have said. The realtor also started using a new SIM card so that police cannot track his number, police have said.
• A Pune court on Tuesday remanded three accused — an owner and two managers of different restaurants — where the boy consumed liquor along with his friends before getting behind the wheel of the car — to police custody till May 24 in the case. The accused — Naman Pralhad Bhutda, the son of Cosie restaurant owner, its manager Sachin Katkar, and the manager of Blak Club hotel Sandip Sangle — were produced before the court.
• Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said after the crash, the police immediately invoked IPC section 304 along with relevant provisions and in its remand plea before the JJB, mentioned that since the teenager was 17 years and eight months old, he should be treated as adult.
• “After the (2012) Nirbhaya case (of Delhi), there was an amendment in the law stipulating that in heinous crimes, juveniles (accused) who are above 16 should be tried as adults. Taking this point, the Pune police sought permission to allow them to treat the juvenile (in Pune crash case) as an adult. However, the board took a different stand,” Fadnavis maintained. He said the JJB took a “lenient view” on remand report filed by the police and granted bail to the boy on grounds he will do community work for 15 days and write an essay of 300 words on road safety.
• “The order (granting bail) passed by the JJB was shocking and surprising and it aggravated the public outrage,” the deputy CM opined. The police moved an application in a higher court challenging the JJB order.
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