Teen admits he was drunk night of crash, reports say

The 17-year-old arrested for allegedly knocking down two IT engineers on May 19 while driving a Porsche has confessed to the Pune police that he was drunk at the time of the accident. India today reported.

The teen's mother was arrested on June 1 after discovering that the boy's blood sample had been swapped with hers. Doctors and police are increasingly being criticized for the way they handled the preliminary investigation in the case, which concerns the son of a well-known builder.

The boy reportedly told police he did not remember the sequence of events clearly, India today said.

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A Pune court remanded his parents to police custody till June 5 in a case of destruction of evidence. They allegedly manipulated the blood sample.

On May 19, the boy hit and killed two IT workers who were riding a motorcycle in Pune's Kalyani Nagar area. As outrage grew over the crash, CCTV footage of the underage driver and his friends drinking in a pub before hitting the bike began to circulate.

According to reports, doctors at Sassoon General Hospital, where he was taken for a check-up, swapped the boy's blood sample with that of his mother. It was reported that the boy's father paid doctors for a favorable blood report.

Two doctors from Sassoon General Hospital and a peon, who also allegedly acted as an intermediary between the family and the doctors, were also arrested.

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The parents allegedly went to a state hospital, handled the blood samples and planned to delete the evidence.

Three police reports were filed in this case: one for the accident, a second against the bar for serving alcohol to a minor and a third on the complaint of the family driver who claimed to have been stopped by the family and asked to take responsibility for the accident. accident.

The boy's grandfather was also arrested.