Pune car crash: Bombay High Court orders release of minor accused of drunk driving
The 17-year-old boy’s aunt told the court that he was being illegally detained in an observation home despite having been granted bail on May 19.
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The Bombay High Court on Tuesday ordered the release of a 17-year-old boy who killed two persons when his Porsche car crashed into their motorbike in Pune on May 19, reported Live Law.
The minor, reportedly from the family of a prominent city realtor, was allegedly driving under the influence of alcohol.
The court’s direction came in response to a petition by Pooja Gagan Jain, the minor’s paternal aunt, who claimed that he was being illegally detained in an observation home despite having been granted bail on May 19. The minor will now be placed under the aunt’s care.
The Juvenile Justice Board in Pune had cancelled the minor’s bail order on May 22 and remanded him to an observation home. The boy’s aunt had sought that the remand order be quashed.
The High Court on Tuesday held the remand order to be illegal and said that it had been passed without jurisdiction. It directed the minor to continue counselling sessions with a psychologist after his release, as mandated by the Juvenile Justice Board.
“How could [the minor] be taken away from the custody of his grandfather and put in an observation home that too by recalling, reviewing the earlier [bail] order of 19th May 2024 is something that is completely in contravention to law,”...
