The city police on Friday filed a draft charge against seven accused including parents of the minor, three Sassoon Hospital staffers and two middlemen who have already been charge-sheeted in the Porsche accident case which left two young IT professionals dead in Kalyaninagar on May 19 this year. Special public prosecutor advocate Shishir Hiray said, “We have filed the draft charges before the special court and there is enough evidence to substantiate before the court.” Besides, the minor’s parents, Dr Ajay Taware (48) former head of the forensic medicine department of Sassoon Hospital, Dr Shrihari Halnor (35) the casualty medical officer at the time, Atul Ghatkamble (30 ) morgue staff and ‘middlemen’ Ashpaque Makandar (36 ) and Amar Gaikwad (27) are five other accused against who the draft charge has been filed.
The draft charge has been filed before special judge U M Mudholkar under IPC sections 304, 279, 338, 337, 427, 120 (b), 201, 213, 214, 466, 467, 468, 471, 109 and sections of the Motor Vehicle Act and Prevention of Corruption Act. Meanwhile, Special Public Prosecutor (SPP) Hiray along with assistant lawyer advocate Sarathi Pansare additionally moved an application before the court that the iPhones of Halnor and Ghatkamble could not opened that the investigators required the court consent to get access to a password to unlock the i-cloud passwords. Currently, the confiscated mobiles are with the forensic science lab (FSL) for analysis.
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