A COURT in Pune on Wednesday allowed Pune Metropolis police to query the ten accused within the Porsche crash case — who’re in Yerawada jail — to probe recent leads obtained throughout investigation until now into costs of swapping the blood samples taken at Sasson Common hospital after the incident.
The ten accused at the moment in judicial custody at Yerawada Central Jail embrace dad and mom of the minor driver, two docs and a staffer of Sassoon hospital, two middlemen and fathers of the minor co-passengers who’ve been charged with conspiracy to swap blood samples for monetary transactions.
Pune Metropolis police moved an utility looking for permission to query the ten accused. The police instructed the court docket that they need to query the accused within the mild of latest leads obtained after the arrest of the fathers of the 2 co-passengers and one particular person with whom blood of one of many co-passenger was swapped. The court docket of Extra Periods Decide U M Mudholkar allowed the appliance by the police.
Two IT engineers, Aneesh Awadhiya and his good friend Ashwini Koshta, each aged 24 and hailing from Madhya Pradesh, had been killed after the dashing Porsche pushed by then 17-year-old boy allegedly in an inebriated state hit their bike round 2.30 am on Could 19 this yr in Pune’s Kalyaninagar space.
An FIR was lodged on the identical day at Yerawada police station towards the minor automobile driver. The police investigation revealed that when the minor accused was taken to the government-run Sassoon hospital after the accident for a medical examination, his blood pattern was allegedly changed together with his mom’s.
Police subsequently made a number of arrests together with the minor’s 50-year-old realtor father and 49-year-old mom, Dr Ajay Taware, then head of the forensic drugs of Sassoon hospital, Dr Shrihari Halnor, then casualty medical officer; Atul Ghatkamble, a staffer on the hospital’s morgue; and Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad, who acted as middlemen between the minor’s father and the docs. They had been charged with tampering proof, forgery, legal conspiracy and corruption. On July 26, the Pune Metropolis police filed a chargesheet towards seven individuals within the case and on October 25 the police filed draft costs towards the seven.
Apart from these seven, police additional arrested a 37-year-old man who had allegedly given his blood to be swapped with that of a minor co-passenger. One other 52-year-old man, father of one other minor co-passenger, was additionally arrested earlier for allegedly giving his personal blood pattern to be swapped together with his son. On November 15, the prosecution filed chargesheet towards these two and draft costs had been filed towards the duo on November 25.
The then minor driver has been arraigned on the Juvenile Justice Board the place he faces costs of culpable murder. A plea by Pune police to deal with him as an grownup for the trial is at the moment pending. Police have additionally arraigned a tenth accused within the case who’s the 47-year-old father of the minor co-passenger whose blood was swapped with the 37-year-old man arrested earlier. Police are but to file a chargesheet towards this tenth accused.
In the meantime on Wednesday, Dr Taware filed for a discharged utility by way of his lawyer. The arguments on the appliance are anticipated to happen in coming hearings within the case.
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