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PUNE: A
special court
on Friday granted bail to the father of the 17-year-old involved in the
Porsche Taycan crash
at Kalyaninagar, and five representatives of two pubs in a case under the Juvenile Justice (JJ) Act.
Two software engineers were killed after the car hit their motorcycle from behind around 2.30am on May 19. The teenage driver was returning home after partying with friends — first at
Cosie pub
and later at
Blak Marriott pub
, both in Mundhwa.
The teenager’s father, a city-based builder, was booked for giving the car to the minor despite knowing that the latter had no driving licence and was not trained to drive it. The owner and a manager of Cosie and two staffers and a consultant with Blak Marriot were booked for serving liquor to minors, including the teenage driver. “The court has granted bail to all the six applicants. We are yet to get a full text of the court’s order,”
special public prosecutor
Vidya Vibhute told TOI.
The builder’s lawyer, Prashant Patil, and lawyers S Jain, Amol Dange, Sudhir Shah and Shreyas Kulkarni, representing the other applicants, also confirmed the development and said their clients had been directed to furnish personal bonds of Rs50,000 each with a surety of the like amount to secure their release.
However, the teenager’s father is unlikely to walk out of
Yerawada jail
soon as the JJ Act case is different from the main accident case in which the teenager is the prime accused while his parents, two doctors and a then mortuary staffer at
Sassoon hospital
, and two middlemen are co-accused. They have been charged with manipulating the 17-year-old’s blood alcohol test by swapping his sample with that of his mother’s.
The minor’s father and grandfather are booked in another case of abducting their family driver in a bid to force him to take the blame for the car crash. On Friday, the
Kondhwa police
formally arrested the builder in another criminal case registered this year in connection with a cheating and threatening incident in 2019 and produced him before a court for remand after securing his custody from Yerawada jail. The court, however, said there was no need for his questioning and sent the father to magisterial custody.
Lawyer Patil said, “Our client’s bail plea in the abduction case is pending before a magisterial court. We will soon file bail pleas in the May 19 car crash and the recently registered cheating case. Our client and his father have already secured an interim anticipatory bail till June 24 in yet another case of abetment to a businessman’s suicide registered with the
Chandanagar police
.”
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