Pune Porsche crash: Mother of minor accused walks out of prison after Supreme Court grants her interim bail | Pune News
The 50-year-old mother of the accused minor driver in the Pune Porsche car crash case walked out of the Yerawada Central Prison Saturday morning, said her lawyer. This was after the Supreme Court granted her interim bail and a Pune special court set the bail conditions. She is accused of conspiracy to replace her minor son’s blood with her own at Sassoon General Hospital after the May 19 crash.
A Supreme Court bench of Justices BR Gavai and AG Masih granted bail to the minor’s mother on Tuesday. Arguments were held before a special court in Pune on her bail conditions Friday.
Setting the conditions for her bail, the Pune court ordered her not to disclose her identity anywhere for the next three months, report to the investigation officer weekly, and not leave India without prior permission. “My client (mother of the minor accused driver) was released from prison around noon today (Saturday) following completion of the bail formalities,” said advocate Dhvani Shah.
Two IT engineers, Aneesh Awadhiya and his friend Ashwini Koshta, both aged 24 and hailing from Madhya Pradesh, were killed after a speeding Porsche car driven by a 17-year-old boy, allegedly in an inebriated state, hit their motorcycle in Pune’s Kalani Nagar area around 2.30 am on May 19, 2024.
The police subsequently arrested many, including the minor’s 51-year-old realtor father and mother, Dr Ajay Taware, then head of the forensic medicine of Sassoon hospital, Dr Shrihari Halnor, who was the casualty medical officer; Atul Ghatkamble, a staffer at the hospital’s morgue; and Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad, who allegedly acted as middlemen between the minor’s father and the doctors.
They were charged with tampering with evidence, forgery, criminal conspiracy and corruption. The police further arraigned the fathers of two minor co-passengers and a person who acted as a middleman for them.
