Pune car crash: Police arrest minor’s mother for swapping his blood samples
Two doctors at the Sassoon General Hospital were earlier arrested for changing the sample while sending it to the forensic lab to check for alcohol content.
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The Pune Police has arrested the mother of the 17-year-old boy, who killed two persons when his car crashed into their motorbike, for allegedly swapping her blood sample with her son’s, The Indian Express reported on Saturday.
The crash took place on May 19 when the minor, reportedly from the family of a prominent city realtor, was driving a Porsche car with no number plate. He was booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
On May 28, the police said they found that doctors at the Sassoon General Hospital had manipulated the minor’s blood samples collected after accident. They said the blood sample of another person was taken and sent to the forensic lab to check for alcohol content.
Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar was quoted as saying on Saturday that the minor’s blood samples were replaced with that of his mother.
Earlier, the police had arrested Ajay Taware and Shrihari Harnor, doctors at the Sassoon Hospital, for allegedly manipulating the blood samples of the 17-year-old.
According to Kumar, Harnor replaced the blood samples on directions from Taware, the head of the Forensic Medicine Department of the hospital.
The police also arrested a medical staffer who allegedly took a bribe of Rs 3 lakh from the teenager’s father and passed it on to one of the doctors, according...
