Pune Porsche car crash: SC seeks Maharashtra Govt’s reply on bail
The Supreme Court has sought a response from the Maharashtra Government on pleas filed by an accused seeking bail in the Pune Porsche car accident case that claimed two lives in May 2024.
On May 19, 2024, a Porsche car, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old boy under the influence of alcohol, fatally knocked down two IT professionals in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar area.
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan issued notice to the state Government and tagged the plea filed by accused Amar Santish Gaikwad against the Bombay High Court’s December 16 order with other similar matters related to the case.
Gaikwad, represented by advocate Sana Raees Khan, submitted that the high court erred in its finding and denied him bail.
Khan submitted before the bench on Thursday that the sole allegation against the petitioner was that he acted as a middleman for the monetary transaction, which was made for tampering with the medical evidence or swapping of the blood sample of the juvenile at Sassoon Hospital by receiving the cash amount from the driver and handing it over to the doctor’s assistant.
The plea filed through advocate Pranay Shridhar Chitale further said that throughout the course of investigation, the prosecution levelled allegations regarding the tampering of evidence at the instance of the mother of the juvenile, who was driving the car but she has been granted bail and, hence, the principle of parity is squarely applicable to the petitioner whose role stands on a far better footing.
“The prosecution alleged that the petitioner, along with the co-accused, acted as middlemen between the parents of the juvenile and the doctors at Sassoon Hospital during the medical examination of the juvenile after the incident,” it said.
