07 January,2026 08:05 PM IST | New Delhi | mid-day online correspondent
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday sought a response from the Maharashtra government on pleas filed by two accused seeking bail in the Pune Porsche car accident case that claimed two lives earlier in May 2024.
The PTI reported, Aditya Avinash Sood (52) and Ashish Satish Mittal (37) were arrested on August 19 last year, as their blood samples were used for tests in connection with two minors who were in the car along with the 17-year-old main accused at the time of the accident.
On May 19, 2024, a Porsche car, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old boy under the influence of alcohol, fatally knocked down two IT professionals in Pune's Kalyani Nagar area.
Following the crash, a bench of Justice B V Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan issued notice to the state government on their pleas against the Bombay High Court order rejecting bail. Later on December 16, the High Court rejected the bail pleas of eight accused, including Sood and Mittal, in the case.
The juvenile justice board (JJB) had granted bail to the accused minor on lenient terms, sparking nationwide outrage. The bail conditions included writing a 300-word essay on road safety.
As bail for the accused juvenile triggered outrage, the Pune police approached the JJB to review its decision. Moreover, the board then modified the order and sent the juvenile to an observation home. In June, the high court ordered the release of the juvenile.
While the juvenile involved in the case was released from an observation home, a total of 10 accused - his parents, Vishal Agarwal and Shivani Agarwal; two doctors, Ajay Tawre and Shreehari Halnor; Sassoon Hospital's staffer, Atul Ghatkamble; two middlemen; and three others, Aditya Avinash Sood, Ashish Mittal and Arun Kumar Singh -- were sent to jail in the blood sample swapping case.
In view of the discrepancies around the Pune Porsche car crash, two Pune Police officials were dismissed from service over lapses in the investigation.
News agency PTI reported that an internal inquiry found lapses in case registration and delays in collecting blood samples. Police said that the teenager's blood samples were taken only at 11 am, several hours after the accident, and were allegedly replaced with those of his mother.
(With inputs from PTI)
