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. The parents could not be held liable for the acts of their son if he had driven the car on his own, he said.
Lawyers Sudhir Shah and Rhishikesh Ganu, arguing on behalf of Taware and Halnor, said the time limit to file a chargesheet is 90 days if a forgery charge is invoked. Since police had filed the chargesheet within 60 days, this showed that offence relating to forgery was not applicable, they said. Besides, the electronic evidence seized by the police cannot be tampered with, they added.
Lawyer Prasad Kulkarni, representing the middlemen, argued that his clients were facing the charge of bribing hospital staffers. “My clients have the right to claim bail because they have been prosecuted for an offence punishable below seven years.” We also published the following articles recently Lawyer had instigated Unnao woman to immolate herself A lawyer named Sunil Kumar from Unnao was arrested for allegedly encouraging a woman to self-immolate on Vikramaditya Marg in Lucknow.
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