Pune builder Vishal Agarwal and his wife Shivani were presented before a special holiday court on Sunday amid allegations that the family tried to cover-up the deadly accident by their son. The court granted police custody of the parents till June 5.
Pune police had argued for a seven-day custody of Shivani Agarwal to probe who was given actual sample and syringe in the hospital to swap blood sample of the accused with his mother’s.
Pune police said that they want to cross-examine the doctors with the parents, and also collect CCTV footage.
The 17-year-old boy, in an inebriated condition, drove his Porsche car and fatally knocked down two IT professionals travelling on a motorbike in Kalyani Nagar area of Maharashtra’s Pune city on May 19.
The police have registered three separate cases in the matter. The cases include an FIR in connection with the accident and the second one against the bar that allegedly served liquor to the juvenile.
Police have booked the boy’s father for allowing him to drive the car without a valid license. A third case is about the wrongful confinement and coercion of the family driver to take the blame for the accident.
Latest Updates on Pune Porsche Accident Case:
• After being arrested on Saturday afternoon, the mother of the Porsche car’s minor driver reportedly told the police that the doctors at Sassoon hospital told her to give her blood as sample instead of her son’s. “We have recorded the statement of the woman (49). She told us that the doctors of the hospital had told her to give her blood as sample instead of her son’s. She feigned ignorance on why the doctors told her so,” a Times of India report quoted Pune commissioner of police (CP) Amitesh Kumar.
• The 17-year-old accused was interrogated for an hour on Saturday, from 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. While sources told News18 that he was evading questions, a report in Hindustan Times quoted police as saying that the teenager told them that as he was drunk at the time of the accident he could not remember anything.
• Amid the murky case, a fresh charge has come to light against the Sassoon hospital doctor accused in the matter. A retired customs commissioner has reportedly alleged that Dr Ajay Taware manipulated the gender test report of the former’s daughter-in-law in a marital dispute five years ago.
• Talking to PTI, the retired official claimed that the doctor had played a role in fudging the gender test report of his estranged daughter-in-law. The customs official’s son got married in 2013, but his daughter-in-law refused to have sexual relations with her husband, he said. When he checked her medical history and birth certificate at Aurangabad (now Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar), her birthplace, the official found that she was born a male in 1984. After ten years, the municipal corporation issued a new birth certificate mentioning her gender as female.
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