Pune: The Bombay high court on Wednesday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of a labour contractor — the father of one of the two minors accompanying the 17-year-old Porsche Taycan car driver in the May 19 crash — wanted on charges of conspiracy and manipulation of blood alcohol test of his minor son. The bench of Justice Manish Pitale held that there was a strong prima facie case made out against the (bail) applicant of forging a valuable security to secure a favourable alcohol examination certificate based on deception and creation of documents in conspiracy with co-accused Dr (Shrihari) Halnor. Two software engineers were killed when the Porsche car driven by the son of a prominent city builder hit their bike from behind in Kalyaninagar.
The teenage driver's case is pending before the Juvenile Justice Board in Pune. The police have so far arrested the teenager's parents, two doctors and a mortuary staffer (all three suspended) of the Sassoon General Hospital, two middlemen, the father of the other accompanying minor and the labour contractor's friend on charges of conspiracy and manipulation of blood alcohol tests. They are lodged in Yerawada central prison.
It is the police's case that as part of a conspiracy, the teenage driver's blood sample was replaced with that of his mother's and the blood samples of the accompanying minors were replaced with those of the arrested father of one of them and the labour contractor's friend. The labour contractor moved the high co.