Additionally, the accused juvenile's father and grandfather have also been booked in a separate cheating case by the Pimpri Chinchwad Police of Pune district. Earlier, they were also booked in a case related to abetment of suicide of a businessman's son in the city.
Two IT professionals were killed in the early hours of May 19 in Kalyani Nagar in Pune after a Porsche allegedly being driven by the minor, who the police claim was drunk, rammed into their two-wheeler.
Sunil Tingres belongs to the Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and represents the Vadgaon Sheri assembly constituency in Pune city.
Pune Porsche car crash: The minor ploughed his swanky luxury car into two IT professionals, who were travelling on a bike, killing them on the spot on the night of May 19. The accused has been detained at an observation home on the order of the Juvenile Justice Board.
Porsche crash case: The doctors, including Dr. Ajay Taware and Dr. Shrihari Halnor, allegedly swapped the juvenile driver's blood samples with those of a woman, purportedly his mother, to suggest he wasn't intoxicated during the accident.
The newly arrested individual is accused of tampering with the blood sample of the minor driver. This development adds a new dimension to the ongoing investigation, suggesting possible attempts to interfere with forensic evidence.
Two doctors have been arrested on the charge of manipulation of blood sample of the accused, the police said.
Pune Porsche accident: The minor ploughed his swanky Porsche into the two IT professionals, who were travelling on a bike, killing them on the spot. Two young IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh, identified as Ashwini Koshta and Aneesh Awadhia, were killed in the accident on the night of May 19.
The Porsche car accident claimed the lives of Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both 24-year-old IT professionals hailing from Madhya Pradesh and working in Pune.
The Juvenile Justice Board had previously granted bail to the accused teenager in connection with the case. The Board's order came under serious criticism online as it ordered the boy to write an essay on road accidents as one of the bail conditions.
The deceased were identified as Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both 24-year-old IT professionals hailing from Madhya Pradesh and working in Pune. A case has been registered against the teenager under section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder ) of the IPC.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and Home Minister Devendra Fadnavis have instructed for stringent action in the case of a car accident allegedly involving a 17-year-old boy that killed two persons, Pune police chief said on Tuesday.
Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar addressed public's concerns that the police were not taking adequate action in the case, asserting both the government and police were committed to take stringent measures against those responsible for the incident.
The Pune Police arrested the father of the accused juvenile, and the bar owner and manager who served liquor to the boy on the night of the incident.
The police had earlier arrested the father of the accused juvenile who was allegedly involved in the Porsche hit-and-run case in the early hours of Sunday. The police arrested three other persons in connection with the case on Tuesday.
According to the police, one of the three accused was her collegemate. They demanded a ramson from her parents after kidnapping her, the officials said.
A group of people entered the FTII campus and removed the 'Remember Babri mosque and death of constitution' banners. They allegedly assaulted some students on the campus. The police initiated action against intruders.
The accused Lalit Patil had escaped from a government-run hospital in Pune after he was helped by two women who have also been held in the case. The women gave Patil Rs 25 lakh when he landed in Nashik after his escape, police claimed.
Pune Police nabbed two accused who were wanted by NIA in a case of Rajasthan and have a reward of Rs 5 lakhs each.
In the video, it is seen that the car is parked in the middle of the road and is surrounded by many people. The man was seen celebrating his birthday by cutting the cake with a sword while sitting on the roof of a car.
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