The teen driver, who allegedly drove his Porsche over two IT professionals in Pune earlier this month, revealed that he was drunk at the time of the accident but could not remember anything. The juvenile is in an observation home till June 5.
The Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) on Friday permitted the police to probe the teenager. The police also said the teen remained tight-lipped during questioning despite much effort. “The probe was related to certain points related to the accident, including sequence of events, his presence at two restaurants and the blood sample episode at Sassoon General Hospital. They were not forthcoming during the probe,” the official said.
“Our officials asked the minor about his location before the accident, his presence in Blak and Cosie pubs, driving the Porsche, . To all the questions, the minor had a single answer – that he had no memory of anything as he was drunk,” said a crime branch official as quoted by TOI.
Earlier, the investigation revealed that the minor and his friends consumed alcohol and paid bills worth 48,000 at two pubs where they went.
The police have registered three separate cases after the car allegedly driven by a minor boy fatally knocked down two IT professionals traveling on a motorbike in Kalyani Nagar area of Maharashtra’s Pune city on May 19. The three cases include an FIR in connection with the accident and the second one against the bar that allegedly served liquor to the juvenile. Police have booked the boy’s father, a builder, for allowing him to drive the car without a valid license. A third case is about the wrongful confinement and coercion of the family driver to take the blame for the accident.
Among the boy’s family members, police have so far arrested his father, grandfather, and his (juvenile’s) mother after confirmation that his blood samples were replaced with hers, Pune police chief Amitesh Kumar said on Saturday.
