“The doctors asked me to give my blood sample”: says the mother of the Porsche teenager after his arrest | Pune News

PUNE: The mother of the minor driver of the Porsche car (17) was arrested on Saturday afternoon for giving her blood sample instead of that of her son following the accident on May 19, after crime branch personnel arrested her around 6:30 am. his Wadgaonsheri bungalow.

Pune Commissioner of Police (CP) Amitesh Kumar told TOI, “We have recorded the statement of the woman (49). She told us that doctors at the hospital told her to give her blood as a sample instead of her son's. ignorance of why the doctors told him this.

The child's mother was arrested in a case in which police cited charges of forgery and destruction of evidence after DNA analysis of the blood sample taken at the hospital revealed that he It didn't belong to the child.

The state government-appointed committee in its report claimed that a woman and two elderly people had given their blood samples in place of the boy after an accident in Kalyaninagar on May 19, in which two technicians been killed. The boy, police said, had visited two pubs before the accident and had been drinking with his friends.

The boy's father (50), a mason, was arrested later in the afternoon after police took custody of him at Yerawada Central Prison. Previously, he and his father (grandfather of the minor driver) were arrested on charges of kidnapping and confining their family's driver (42 years old) and asking him to admit to the crime.



Police record statement of teenage driver in presence of arrested mother
Police have been unable to make contact with the boy's mother for the past four days. People present in her bungalow informed the police that she was not there.

A senior crime branch officer told TOI, “The woman had gone to Mumbai. She returned to Pune late on Friday evening. Our team reached the bungalow after coming to know about it and arrested her.”

A police officer served a notice to the woman after her arrest, asking her to be present in the observation house as they wanted to record the boy's statement, which could only be done in the presence of his guardians. “Our team recorded the boy’s statement in the presence of his mother,” additional commissioner of police (crime) Shailesh Balkawade said.

A Pune crime branch officer said, “The boy knows how the accident happened on May 19. He knows how he left his bungalow, where he went with his friends and how he got behind the wheel of the Porsche. We collected coins. evidence over the past 12 days and he wanted to corroborate it with his statement.”

Another senior officer of the crime branch said, “The woman told us that she gave her blood as a sample in ward no. 40 of the hospital on May 19. We will take his blood samples again for DNA testing and compare them. whether the boy's mother had actually given him blood for testing at the hospital.”

Police had earlier arrested Dr Ajay Taware, Dr Shrihari Halnor and a mortuary staff member of Sassoon Hospital, Ghatkamble Atul Ghatkamble, on charges of exchanging the boy's blood sample after his arrest at the following the accident. “We have seized the DVR (digital video recorder) of the hospital. The boy's mother and other relatives can be seen near ward no. 40 on May 19. The boy's family members had surrendered to the hospital in a car It belonged to the boy’s father,” the senior crime branch officer said.

Police are searching for another car that went to the hospital on the morning of May 19. An intermediary then contacted Ghatkamble, and the latter contacted Taware. Following this, Taware and the boy's father communicated by telephone. Taware then told Halnor to exchange the blood samples. “We are still looking for the boy's blood sample taken with a syringe at the hospital,” he said.