Cops chargesheet Porsche teen's parents for culpable homicide

PUNE:
On June 18, police submitted a detailed final report to Pune's Juvenile Justice Board against the underage driver, seeking legal consent to try him as an adult. The board's decision is awaited.
The chargesheet submitted to the court of special judge U M Mudholkar names seven accused - the teenager's builder father, his mother, senior doctors Ajay Taware and Shrihari Halnor, and mortuary staffer Atul Ghatkamble of Sassoon General Hospital, and middlemen Ashfaque Mankandar and Amar Gaikwad.All three hospital employees are under suspension.
The middlemen facilitated the builder's contact with Taware and allegedly handed Ghatkamble Rs 3 lakh to manipulate the teenager's blood alcohol test. Police seized Rs 2.5 lakh from Halnor and Rs 50,000 from Ghatkamble.
Taware was the head of forensic sciences and Halnor the casualty medical officer at the hospital. Investigators believe that Halnor acted at Taware's behest, disposing of the teenager's blood sample and replacing it with that of the boy's mother.
Two young software engineers died after the Porsche hit their motorcycle in Kalyaninagar around 2.30am on May 19. The minor, according to the police, was returning to his family home at Wadgaon Sheri after partying with friends at a couple of pubs in the Mundhwa area.
On whether there was clinching evidence of the individual roles of the seven accused, Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar told TOI, "I will not comment for now about the evidence relating to individual roles. For us, all the seven accused are part of a conspiracy to destroy evidence in the case, and bribery to manipulate the teenager's blood sample report."
Sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 279 (rash driving) and 338 (causing grievous hurt with act endangering life) of the IPC are some of the charges in the original police case.
(With inputs by Gitesh Shelke)