The Supreme Court granted bail to three accused in the 2024 Pune Porsche accident case that killed two people, observing that parents must be held accountable for juveniles being given cars and money without control
SC grants bail to three accussed in Pune Porsche accident. File pic
The Supreme Court has granted bail to three accused in the Pune Porsche car accident case, where two people were killed due to rash and negligent driving by a juvenile in May 2024. The accused are alleged to have helped the juvenile's family tamper with evidence by swapping blood samples.
A bench of Justices B.V. Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan, expressed that it is saddening how irresponsible such parents are who provide their juvenile children with high-speed cars and let them indulge in celebrating with substances such as alcohol and drugs.
Three accused who got bail
One of the accused granted bail is the father of a juvenile passenger who was seated in the back seat of the Porsche. The other, who has been granted bail by the apex court, is a friend of the father of the other backseat passenger.
Whereas the third accused is an assistant of the doctor who examined the medical evidence and is alleged to have accepted Rs 3 lakh from the parents to swap the blood sample in order to shield the juvenile driver from prosecution, reported PTI.
The Supreme Court, while granting bail to the accused, noted, "Let them be produced before the trial court. They may be granted bail and shall not misuse liberty. Any violation of the condition would result in cancellation of bail, as per PTI.
Justice Nagarathna, after listening to the prosecution and the defendants, said, "Celebration is not on the basis of substance (abuse) and driving at speed. Two innocent people were killed. There are innocent people sleeping on the road; this is not the first time this has happened,” as cited by PTI news.
“The main ones responsible are the parents who are giving them sufficient funds for a gala time. Parents have no time to spend with their children. That's why the best thing is to give them an ATM card and a mobile phone. The law has to catch up. See, two innocent lives are lost and all these mechanisations. But it's liberty vs all this," Justice Nagarathna added.
Pune car crash killed two people
The 2024 Pune car crash was a fatal incident that happened on May 19, 2024, in Kalyani Nagar, where a minor driving a Porsche killed two people on a motorcycle, Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta. The driver, who was allegedly drunk and driving an unregistered luxury car, was initially granted bail, but later, it sparked public outrage, leading to his arrest, along with his father and others, for alleged manipulation of evidence and police corruption.
(With inputs from PTI)
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