SC denies father of minor in Pune Porsche crash before arrest bail | India News – Times of India

NEW DELHI: The SC has rejected anticipatory bail for the father of a minor who was in the backseat of the Porsche car that fatally killed two people in Pune. He is accused of tampering with evidence to protect his son.
A bench of Justices Sudhanshu Dhulia and Ahsanuddin Amanullah refused to interfere with the Bombay High Court order denying him bail. He is alleged to have conspired to swap his son’s blood samples to conceal the fact that he was under the influence of alcohol at the time of the incident.
The HC had on October 23 found that there was prima facie evidence indicating that the petitioner had bribed doctors to tamper with his son’s blood sample. The applicant’s minor son was reportedly in the backseat of the luxury car, which was reportedly driven by another minor. Both the minors were reportedly drunk when the car killed two persons on a motorcycle in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar in the early hours of May 19. The victims, a man and a woman, were later identified as IT professionals.
“The applicant, who is the father of the said minor son, was part of the conspiracy under Section 120-B of the IPC to effect such deception by affixing a label to show that it blood sample which belonged to the minor son while it was being collected. the blood sample of the co-accused It is the said label on the blood sample that formed the basis for deception, read together with the documents prepared in collusion with the co-accused (doctor) on behalf of the applicant that the blood sample is not a ‘document’, pales in comparison it does not,” the bank noted. TNN