Pune: The aviation spares company owner arrested on Monday night in the Porsche Taycan crash case is the father of one of the two minors in the rear seats. The second man arrested is a jeweller-cum-realtor, who 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 conspiracy to manipulate the blood alcohol tests . We arrested them after their involvement came to light.” After the arrest of two doctors and a mortuary staffer of Sassoon General Hospital on May 27, the police had recorded statements of hospital staffers and found that blood samples of two minors were also taken along with that of the underage driver’s to ascertain if they were in an inebriated condition, additional commissioner of police (crime) Shailesh Balkawade said.
“We started corroborating this information and suspected that the blood samples of the other two minors too may have been changed.” "Last week, we summoned the two minors to the hospital and got their blood samples collected again. They were sent to the Regional Forensic Sciences Laboratory (RFSL) along with the samples collected on May 19.
The RFSL gave its report to us two days ago, confirming that the blood samples were of different individuals. Based on this, we arrested the persons who gave their blood samples for a swap,” Balkawade said..
