This is a representational image (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: The SC rejected anticipatory bail to the father of a minor who was sitting in the rear seat of the Porsche car that fatally killed two people in Pune. He is facing charges of tampering with evidence to protect his son. A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ahsanuddin Amanullah refused to interfere with the Bombay High Court order denying him bail.
He is alleged to have conspired to swap his son's blood samples to conceal that he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident. The HC on Oct 23 had observed that there was prima facie evidence suggesting that the petitioner had bribed doctors to tamper with his son's blood sample. The applicant's minor son was allegedly in the rear seat of the luxury car, which was reportedly being driven by another minor.
Both minors were purportedly drunk when the car fatally knocked down two persons on a motorbike in Pune's Kalyani Nagar in the wee hours of May 19. The victims, a man and a woman, were later identified to be IT professionals. "The applicant, being the father of the said minor son, was part of the conspiracy under Section 120-B of the IPC to bring about such deception by affixing of label to show the blood sample to be that of the minor son while it was the blood sample of the co-accused.
It is the said label affixed on the blood sample that was the basis of deception, read with the documents created in conspiracy with the co-accused (doctor). Henc.