Pune Porsche accident update: Maharashtra CM says Juvenile Justice Board took a “lenient stance” on the police report and granted bail to the teen by asking him to write a 300-word essay on road safety.
Pune Porsche accident news update: Juvenile Justice Board has canceled the bail order of a 17-year-old teenager who rammed his speeding Porsche into a motorcycle, killing two people on the spot. He has been sent to the observation home till June 5.
The police argued before the Juvenile Justice Board in favor of remanding the 17-year-old accused on the grounds that he was not safe outside as there was a possibility of people attacking him and if he was inside people would be safe.
But the defense lawyer said that the teenager was suffering from depression and that was why he drank alcohol. The accused told the panel that he wanted to live with his mother and would feel safe at home. He said that if he remained inside the remand centre, he could go into further depression.
Ahead of the hearing before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), the Pune Police has added some additional sections against the 17-year-old accused. Sections 185 (driving by a person under the influence of alcohol), Section 184 (action against those who violate traffic rules through careless or dangerous driving), 119 (maximum age in relation to driving a motor vehicle) and 177 of the Motor Vehicles Act. (General provisions added regarding punishment of offenses notwithstanding)
The Juvenile Justice Board heard Pune Police’s request to try the 17-year-old accused as an adult.
A Porsche car driven by a teenager, who police claim was drunk, hit two software engineers riding a motorcycle in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar early Sunday morning.
The father of 17-year-old Vishal Agarwal, a real estate developer, was sent to two-day police custody by a sessions court on Wednesday. According to the remand transcript, Vishal Agarwal was not cooperating with the police in the investigation, so Pune Police requested to take him into custody for further questioning.
When the police sent him a notice to join the investigation before his arrest, he misled them by saying that he was in Shirdi, but he was in Aurangabad. When Vishal was arrested, he had a simple Nokia phone and a Kia car. The police seized both of them.
Police have registered a case against the teen’s father under sections 75 and 77 of the Juvenile Justice Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Article 75 deals with “willfully neglecting the child, or exposing him to mental or physical illness”, while Article 77 deals with introducing the child to intoxicating drinks or drugs.
LATEST UPDATES ON PUNE ACCIDENT:
- The accused’s lawyer Prashant Patel said the decision to appeal against the order would be taken after talking to the teen’s parents. “We will talk to the parents of the accused and decide by tomorrow evening whether we need to appeal or not,” Patel said.
- The parents can meet the accused twice a week for one hour.
No argument was presented before the JJ Board today regarding trying the juvenile as an adult. The accused’s lawyer said the police would have to file a charge within 30 days, and a decision on whether the 17-year-old would be tried as an adult would be taken within three months. He said that the police will have to take the approval of JJB. Want to interrogate the teenager. - The defense lawyer said that the teenager was suffering from depression and that is why he drank alcohol.
- RTO official Sanjeev Porey said, “The car was delivered from a dealer in Bengaluru. A temporary registration was issued by the Bengaluru Central RTO which was valid from March 18, 2024 to September 17, 2024… The owner will be able to get the car registered. It was inspected at RTO Pune on April 18, 2024. The prescribed fee was not paid and registration number was not issued for the vehicle. vehicle, hence exempted from registration duties and taxes… The accused is not responsible for obtaining a driving license till the age of 25 years… And aviation teams have been instructed to impound any vehicle without number plate Seize it immediately…’
- The hearing has begun at JJB. The media is not allowed inside. Sources said that Vishal Agarwal will be produced around 2 pm.
• Amidst the anger, NCP leader Prajakta Tanpuri’s wife came out and accused Kishor of “bullying” children in the school. She claimed that her son and the accused were in the same school, and that he “bullied people at school.”
• Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) president Prakash Ambedkar claimed that Yerwada police station officials “spent more time questioning the relationship” between deceased Aneesh and Ashwini, while the accused allegedly “served burgers and pizzas”. .
• Pune bar owners are scheduled to meet the Police Commissioner and request a stay on proceedings against them. They see young people entering with fake IDs, and they have no way to verify it. The move comes hours after Pune Municipal Corporation took action against illegal bars.
• A Pune court on Tuesday sent three accused in the case – owners and two managers of different restaurants – where the boy had consumed alcoholic beverages with his friends before driving the car – to police custody till May 24. The accused – Nauman Pralhad Bhootada, son of the owner of Cozi Restaurant, its manager Sachin Katkar and Sandeep Sanjal, manager of Black Club Hotel – were produced in the court.
• Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that after the incident, the police immediately invoked section 304 of the IPC with relevant provisions and said in his remand application filed before the JJB that since the teen was 17 years and eight months old, he was arrested. should be done. Treated like an adult.
• “After the Nirbhaya case (2012) (in Delhi), an amendment was made to the law stating that in heinous crimes, juveniles (accused) above 16 years of age should be tried as adults, From this point, the Pune Police sought permission to treat the juvenile (in the Pune accident case) as an adult, while the Board took a different stand and said that the JJB had taken a “lenient stance” on the remand report submitted by the police. ” Adopted and granted bail to the boy. On the basis that he will do community work for 15 days and write an article of 300 words about road safety.
• The Deputy Chief Minister said, “The order passed by the JJB (granting bail) was shocking and surprising and has increased the anger of the public.” The police filed an application in the higher court challenging the JJB order.
• After an FIR was lodged against Vishal Agarwal, a Pune-based builder, for allowing his 17-year-old son to drive a luxury car, he tried to escape. Aggarwal tried to mislead the police by leaving home in his car and asked the driver to go to Mumbai.
• A prominent Pune realtor allegedly asked another driver to go to Goa in his other car. On the way to Mumbai, he got out of the car and used a friend’s car to drive towards Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar.
