Pune: Police on Monday night arrested an aviation spares company owner and a jeweller, who is also into real estate business, in the Porsche Taycan crash case for their alleged role in the manipulation of blood alcohol tests of two minors who were accompanying the 17-year-old driver at the time of the accident. Assistant commissioner of police (crime) Ganesh Ingale and his team on Tuesday produced the duo before special judge UM Mudholkar who ordered their police custody till Aug 26. While the case against the teenage driver is pending before the Juvenile Justice Board, the total number of arrests have reached nine — all accused of conspiracy and bribery to swap blood samples of the minors with those of others.
Two young software engineers were killed after the high-end car hit their bike at Kalyaninagar around 2.30am on May 19. The 17-year-old, son of a city-based builder, was returning home at Wadgaon Sheri along with his two friends, also minors in the rear seats, and his family driver after partying with a group of friends at two pubs in Mundhwa to celebrate the completion of their Standard XII board exam.
The aviation spares company owner is father of one of the two minors in the rear seats while the jeweller-cum-realtor is the friend of a labour contractor whose son was the other accompanying minor. The police are looking for the labour contractor on the charge of conspiracy. Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar told TOI, "The arrested duo are part of a criminal con.