Pune car crash: Two doctors arrested for allegedly manipulating minor’s blood sample
The doctors had replaced the sample with another person’s while sending it for a forensic test to check for alcohol content in his blood, the police said.
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The Pune Police has arrested two doctors of the Sassoon General Hospital for allegedly manipulating the blood sample of the 17-year-old boy who killed two persons, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, when his car crashed into their motorbike, PTI reported on Monday.
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.
The teenager was taken to the Sassoon General Hospital for a medical examination where his blood samples were taken around 11 am that day, according to The Indian Express. The police also took the 17-year-old’s blood samples in the evening on the same day for DNA sampling.
During the investigation, the police said, they found that the doctors had thrown the boy’s blood samples in a dustbin of the hospital. The blood sample of another person was taken and sent to the forensic lab to check for alcohol content, ANI quoted Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar as saying.
The arrested doctors were identified as Ajay Taware and Shrihari Harnor.
According to Kumar, Harnor replaced the 17-year-old’s blood samples on directions from Taware, the head of the Forensic Medicine Department of the hospital.
The minor has been remanded to...
