Pune Porsche crash: Minor’s parents, four others denied bail for allegedly tampering with evidence
The court noted that the accused persons were likely to try and tamper with evidence in the case once again if released on bail.
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A Pune court on Thursday rejected the bail pleas of six persons in connection with the Kalyaninagar Porsche crash on May 19 that killed two persons, reported Bar and Bench.
The parents of the 17-year-old driver who rammed his car into the victims’ motorbike allegedly while under the influence of alcohol were among those denied bail.
The six persons have been accused of tampering with evidence in the case.
On May 28, the police said they had found that doctors at the Sassoon General Hospital had manipulated the minor’s blood samples collected after the accident. They said it had been swapped with the blood sample of his mother and sent to a forensic lab to check for alcohol content.
On July 26, the Pune Police filed a preliminary chargesheet against seven persons in the case, including the parents of the minor, Sassoon Hospital doctors Ajay Taware and Shrihari Halnor and two persons who acted as middlemen, identified as Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad.
The doctors and the middlemen are accused of conspiring to replace the minor’s blood sample with his mother’s in return for money.
At the time of the accident, Taware was the head of the forensic medicine department at Sassoon Hospital while Halnor was the casualty medical officer.
Makandar and Gaikwad allegedly acted as the...
