Over two months after the Pune Porsche car accident killed two IT professionals , police have filed a chargesheet against seven people, including the parents of the minor allegedly behind the wheel. The 900-page chargesheet was submitted in a Pune court on Thursday. However, it excludes the 17-year-old boy, whose case is being handled separately by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB).
“We have filed a 900-page chargesheet against seven accused, including the parents of the minor, two doctors and a staffer from Sassoon General Hospital and two middlemen in a Pune court on Thursday,” PTI quoted Shalesh Balkawade, Additional Commissioner of Police (Crime) as saying. The luxury car was allegedly driven by the 17-year-old minor under the influence of alcohol fatally struck two motorbike-riding software engineers in Kalyani Nagar Pune in the early hours of May 19. The boy's parents along with two doctors from Sassoon General Hospital, Ajay Taware and Dr.
Shrihari Halnor, and staff member Atul Ghatkamble are accused of swapping the boy’s blood samples with his mother’s after the crash. Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad are accused of managing the financial transactions between the father and the doctors to facilitate the swap. The chargesheet includes statements from 50 witnesses.
Last month, the police submitted the final report to the Juvenile Justice Board, detailing all the evidence against the 17-year-old boy in the car crash case. The teenager, son of real estate developer.