Pune: The case of six co-accused, including the parents of the teenage Porsche Taycan car driver, was fit for grant of bail relief as the charge of culpable homicide and forgery was not applicable to them, defence lawyers told a special court on Wednesday. The six could at most be tried for the offence of tampering with evidence , the lawyers said and added that they had already been in jail for almost the last two months and needed to be released on bail. Special judge U M Mudholkar heard the state and the defence lawyers over the last week, and the bail arguments concluded on Wednesday.
The court has now reserved its order for Aug 20. Apart from the 17-year-old’s parents, two suspended Sassoon General Hospital doctors, Ajay Taware and Shrihari Halnor, and two middlemen, Ashfaque Makandar and Amar Gaikwad — all accused of conspiracy to manipulate the minor’s blood alcohol test by swapping his sample with that of his mother’s — have applied for regular bail. Two young software engineers had died at Kalyaninagar around 2.
30 am on May 19 when the teenager, who is the son of a city-based builder, rammed the high-end car into their bike while he was returning home to Wadgaon Sheri after partying with friends at two pubs in Mundhwa. Representing the parents, senior counsel Harshad Nimbalkar told the court that his clients could not be linked to the car crash because there was no mention of evidence in the chargesheet to show that they had asked their son to drive the car.