Tag: Pune accident

  • In Pune Porsche Accident Case, Another Big Allegation Against Maharashtra Minister, MLA |

    New Delhi: Amidst the investigation in the Pune Porsche accident case, another allegation has been made against Maharashtra’s MLA after Sassoon Hospital’s dean Vinayak Kale claimed to have received a letter from a minister and an MLA earlier asking for the elevation of Dr Ajay Tawade as the head of the Hospital’s Forensic Medicine Department. After the dean made serious allegations, he was sent on leave. The dean alleged that one of the two doctors, accused of replacing the blood samples of the teenager responsible for the Porsche accident case, was made head of the Forensic department on the endorsement of a state minister and the local MLA.

    MLA Sunil Tingre also faced allegations of visiting the Yerwada police station and asking officials to go easy in an accident case in which two people were killed.

    The hospital’s dean, Vinayak Kale, addressed the press conference on Wednesday and said that Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Hasan Mushrif and Mr Tingre had asked that Dr Ajay Tawade be made the head of Sassoon Hospital’s Forensic Medicine Department. Both Mr Mushrif and the MLA are from the Ajit Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party, which is in power in Maharashtra in an alliance with the BJP and the Eknath Shinde faction of the Shiv Sena. 

    Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, the hospital’s dean, Vinayak Kale, said Maharashtra Medical Education Minister Hasan Mushrif and Mr Tingre asked in their letter that Dr Ajay Tawade be made the head of Sassoon Hospital’s Forensic Medicine Department, as per NDTV. Both MLAs are part of Ajit Pawar’s Nationalist Congress Party which is currently ruling the state in alliance with BJP.

    Dr Kale was sent on compulsory leave by the Maharashtra government for failing to make proper decisions. This conclusion comes after a few hours of press conference.

    On Monday, Mr Tawade and Dr Shrihari Harnor, the Chief Medical Officer of Sassoon Hospital were arrested for replacing the blood sample of the minor accused with someone who did not consume alcohol.

    Dr Kale also said that Dr Tawade and Mr Ghatkamble have been suspended, while Dr Harnor’s contract has been terminated. 

  • Pune Porsche Case: Minor’s Grandfather Arrested For Allegedly ‘Forcing’ Driver To Take Grandson’s Blame – Reports |

    Pune Porche Case: The Pune Police Crime Branch unit on Saturday morning arrested the grandfather of the minor accused of killing two motocycle-borne persons in Pune City earlier this week after ramming into them the luxury car he was allegedly driving.

    The commissioner of Pune city police, Amitesh Kumar said that the grandfather of the accused was arrested. A separate FIR has been registered against him under IPC sections 365 and 368.

    The Pune City Police had on Thursday questioned the 17-year-old’s grandfather in connection with the incident that took place early on Sunday morning in Pune’s Kayani Nagar. The accused teenager was reportedly driving a luxury car in an inebriated condition and hit two motorcycle borne IT professionals identified as Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta.

    Along with the grandfather of the accused- Surendra Kumar Agarwal, his son Vishal Agarwal has also been booked in the same FIR under IPC Sections of 342,365, 368, 506 and 34 on the complaint of the family driver, Gangadhar, Pune Police CP said.

    The driver Gangadhar had lodged a complaint with police alleging that he was taken to Surendra Agarwal’s home against his will on the night of May 19 when Gangadhar was leaving from from the Yerawada Police Station.

    Surendra and his son Vishal allegedly threatened Gangadhar, snatched his phone and forcibly kept him confined in their bungalow in an attempt to force him to take responsibility for the crime instead of his minor grandson. The accused has been detained at an observation home on the order of the Juvenile Justice Board. He was earlier granted bail in the case but later sent to the observation home for 14 days till June 5.

    The accused teenager’s father, Vishal Agarwal, who was arrested earlier, is lodged in Yerawada Central Prison after he was granted judicial custody for 14 days. The Pune Police commissioner earlier said that efforts were on to try the minor accused as an adult. He confirmed that an effort was made to frame the person employed for driving the Porsche car after the accident, and added that police are investigating his statement.

     

  • Pune Police Detain Father Of Teen Porsche Driver After Crash Killed 2

    The police on Tuesday detained the father of the 17-year-old boy, whose speeding Porche killed two IT professionals in Kalyani Nagar area in Pune. As per the local police the teenager’s father was held in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and he is being brought to Pune. As per reports the boy was drunk at the time when the Porche fatally hit two motorbike riders in the early hours of Sunday. Now, the investigation of these cases has been handed over to the crime branch. 

    Police said, “We have detained the teenager’s father from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar and he is being brought to Pune and will be arrested in the case registered against him,” reported PTI quoting Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar. 

    The police had registered a case against the teenage boy’s dad, who works in real estate, for breaking laws under the Juvenile Justice Act (sections 75 and 77). They also charged the bar’s owners and employees for serving alcohol to someone under 18. Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act relates to “willful neglect of a child, or exposing a child to mental or physical illnesses,” while section 77 is about providing alcohol or drugs to a minor. 

    The man gave his child the car despite knowing that he did not have a valid driving license, thus putting his son’s life at risk. He also allowed his son to attend parties, even though he was fully aware that his son drinks alcohol, reported PTI citing the FIR. 

    Following the accident, the minor was apprehended but was granted bail within 15 hours by the Juvenile Justice Board. As a condition of the bail, the board instructed him to compose a “300-word essay” on the topic of road accidents. The board mandated that he undergo counselling at an alcohol de-addiction center, collaborate with the Yerawada traffic police for 15 days, receive treatment for alcohol cessation, and participate in psychiatric counselling, as outlined by defense lawyer Prashant Patil. 

    #WATCH | Maharashtra: Visuals of the Porsche car and bike currently at Yerwada Police Station in Pune.

    Two people were killed when a speeding Porsche car hit them from behind on 19th May. The accused has been granted bail by the Juvenile Justice Board and his father was… https://t.co/HKj8uK4d9q pic.twitter.com/91SeqwfTeN
    — ANI (@ANI) May 21, 2024

    Around 3:15 on Sunday morning the group of friends were riding motorcycles after attending a party. At the Kalyani Nagar junction, a speeding Porsche collided with the motorcycles, tragically killing the two riders, identified as Anis Awadhiya and Ashwini Costa, both 24-year-old IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh.