Pune teen's friends reveal he was drunk driving his Porsche Taycan on day of accident

Two friends of the 17-year-old boy, accused in the May 19 Pune car crash, have claimed that the Porsche Taycan was driven by the teen at the time of the accident and that he was under the influence of alcohol.

The two friends of the teen, who also were minors, were sitting in the rear seat of the luxurious car at the time of the accident in Pune's Kalyani Nagar.

The Pune Crime Branch had recorded the statement of the juvenile accused's friends under section 164 before the magistrate.

The cops intended to make the minor's friend key witnesses in the case as they were present at the spot at the time of the accident. Their blood samples have also been collected.

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Police seek permission to interrogate teen

On Friday, the Pune Police wrote to the Juvenile Justice Board to seek permission to probe the teen who knocked down two young techies by speeding over his car on them. Both died on the spot.

The accused is in an observation home till June 5.

“We have written to the JJ Board and sought their permission to allow us to probe the minor,” Shailesh Balkawade, additional commissioner of police (crime), said.

Earlier this week, an auto-rickshaw driver, who was saved in the nick of time as the drunken boy crushed two bike-borne IT professionals to death with his car, said: “There were three boys in the car. ⁠All of them were visibly drunk."

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The minimum legal drinking age in Maharashtra is 25. However, the accused was just 17.

When his blood samples were collected to test whether he was drunk at the time of the accident, the Sassoon General Hospital swapped it with someone else's.

The doctors dumped his blood sample in a bin and sent a different sample to the forensic lab for the test. The cops were suspicious after the alcohol test report came negative and they carried out another test at a different government hospital where the report showed he was drunk.

The two doctors were allegedly offered a bribe of Rs 3 lakh. They have been arrested.