Porsche car accident in Pune: minor's mother, Shivani Agarwal, arrested; The police are investigating a teenager in a juvenile home in his presence

Pune, June 1: Pune police have arrested the mother of the minor involved in the Porsche car accident after confirming that her blood samples were replaced with his, the city's police chief said on Saturday. She will likely appear in court today. As part of the investigation, the police also spoke to the minor for about an hour at the observation house, where he was sent until June 5, in the presence of his mother.

Citing the investigation into the accident, Superintendent of Police Amitesh Kumar said the minor's blood samples were exchanged with those of his mother. Police told the local court two days ago that the 17-year-old's blood samples had been exchanged with those of a woman. Porsche car accident in Pune: Shivani Agarwal, mother of arrested minor accused, says Superintendent of Police Amitesh Kumar.

“We will conduct the investigation into the minor inside the house in the presence of his mother,” Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) Shailesh Balkawade had said before the police spoke to the minor. The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) on Friday authorized the police to investigate the teenager. Under the Juvenile Justice Act, the investigation of a minor must be conducted in the presence of the parents.

Two IT professionals were killed in the wee hours of May 19 in Pune's Kalyani Nagar after a Porsche, allegedly driven by the minor, who police said was drunk, rammed into their two-wheeler. The minor's father, realtor Vishal Agarwal, and grandfather Surendra Agarwal were arrested for allegedly kidnapping the family's driver and pressuring him to take responsibility.

On Friday, a court remanded the teenager's father and grandfather in custody for 14 days after their custody ended. Police also arrested Dr Ajay Taware, then head of the forensic medicine department at Sassoon General Hospital, physician Dr Shrihari Halnor and employee Atul Ghatkamble for allegedly manipulating the minor's blood samples to show that he was not drunk at the time of the accident. . Shivani Agarwal, mother of teenager accused in Pune Porsche accident case, under investigation for giving her blood sample instead of her son's.

According to police, around a dozen calls were exchanged between Vishal Agarwal and Dr Ajay Taware, one of the arrested doctors, while samples were being collected for alcohol consumption tests. Dr Halnor and Ghatkamble received a total of Rs 3 lakh from Dr Taware to alter the blood samples, a senior police officer had earlier said.

The police on Friday filed an application for the custody of Vishal Agarwal in connection with the alleged exchange of blood samples. The JJB granted the teenager bail hours after the May 19 crash and asked him to write a 300-word essay on road safety. Amid a national outcry, police again contacted the JJB, who changed the order and sent him to an observation house until June 5.

After bail was granted to the minor by a single member of the JJ board, the Maharashtra government set up a committee to probe the conduct of the state-appointed members of the JJB and check whether the standards were complied with while issuing orders in the Pune car accident. case. The committee, headed by a deputy commissioner, will submit its report next week, Prashant Narnavare, commissioner of the Women and Child Development Department, had earlier said.