Pune Porsche crash: Effort made to change the driver, investigation on to check if he was pressurised, says Pune CP

With a brand new twist and turns in the Pune Porsche accident case, Pune Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar on Friday clarified that the metropolis Crime Branch is certainly investigating the driver angle and efforts had been made to swap driver after the crash.

Kumar additionally added that their case is just not solely dependent on the blood report of the accused as additionally they produce other proof. He denied the allegation of cops offering pizza to the accused.

Speaking with the media, Kumar mentioned, “We have the CCTV footage of him consuming liquor in the pub… The level of claiming that is that our case is just not alone relying on the blood report we now have different proof additionally. He (minor accused) was in his senses. It was not as if all of them had been so drunk that they might not perceive something. They had full data that due to their conduct, an incident like part 304 can occur. There is not any reality about the pizza occasion at the police station.”

Maharashtra | On the Pune automobile accident case, Pune CP Amitesh Kumar says, “Effort was made to change the driver throughout that interval…We are investigating this additionally…It is true that at the begin the driver had mentioned that he was driving the automobile…We are investigating this half additionally… pic.twitter.com/0ufsWHMcmY

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“Effort was made to change the driver throughout that interval…We are investigating this additionally…It is true that at the begin the driver had mentioned that he was driving the automobile…We are investigating this half additionally below whose stress the driver made that assertion we’re investigating it,” Kumar mentioned whereas talking about the driver angle in the case.

The driver angle

For the uninitiated, 17-year-old Vedant Agarwal, who was allegedly drunk, killed two together with his rushing Porsche automobile on May 19. He was launched on bail in simply 15 hours after the detention, nevertheless, his bail was cancelled by the Juvenile Justice Board on Wednesday after an enormous public outcry.

On Thursday, the Pune Crime Branch grilled the grandfather of the accused teen together with his father. Along with them, the accused teen’s driver and buddy had been additionally investigated to piece collectively the sequence of occasions on the evening earlier than the hit-and-run incident. According to ANI, all 4 had been grilled in unison by an officer of DCP rank.

As per the data shared by Crime Branch officers to ANI that the police had been bidding to make the driver a witness in the case, as on the evening of the incident, after the accused left the bar with associates, the latter had requested the teen to take the passenger seat and let him drive.

Father rang driver to let the teen drive

However, the cops added that the juvenile referred to as his father, who later rang up the driver, asking him to let his son drive the Porsche.

The teen’s father, the bar homeowners in addition to the supervisor, who’re presently in police custody, had been being subjected to intense grilling earlier than the time period of their police custody expires at this time.

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