Pune Porsche Crash Case: Accused Will Not Be Tried As Adult, Rules Juvenile Justice Board
In a massive development in the Pune Porsche crash case, the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) on Tuesday rejected the plea to try the accused as an adult.
In the early hours of May 19, 2024, a Porsche allegedly driven by the accused, who was a minor then, knocked down and killed two IT professionals, Anish Awadhiya and his friend Ashwini Koshta, who were riding a two-wheeler in Kalyani Nagar.
Recently, his mother, Shivani Agarwal, was granted bail in connection with the alleged swapping of the accused's blood samples to conceal his intoxication at the time of the crash.
Currently, a total of nine accused are still behind bars, including the minor's father, Vishal Agarwal; two doctors from Sassoon General Hospital, Ajay Tawre and Shreehari Halnor; Sassoon Hospital staffer Atul Ghatkamble; two middlemen, Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad, accused of facilitating financial transactions in the blood swapping case; and three others – Aditya Avinash Sood, Ashish Mittal and Arun Kumar Singh. Sood and Singh are the fathers of the other two minors who were with the juvenile driver in the car when the accident took place and whose blood samples were also swapped. Mittal is Singh’s friend, whose blood sample was swapped with that of Singh’s minor son.
Meanwhile, in this case, the prosecution recently argued that the accused persons are using delaying tactics to prolong legal proceedings by moving "frivolous" applications before the trial court.
The prosecution has concluded its arguments seeking that charges be framed against all involved, citing it has conclusive DNA evidence to prove the accused's blood samples were swapped with those of his mother at the Sassoon General Hospital.
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