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Pune car crash: Police form over 12 teams to investigate multiple aspects

Police have formed more than a dozen teams comprising 100 personnel to look into various aspects of the wide-range investigation into the Porsche car crash case allegedly involving a minor driver, an officer said on Saturday. Police have registered three separate cases after the car allegedly driven by a minor boy fatally knocked down two IT professionals travelling on a bike in Kalyani Nagar area on May 19. The three cases include FIRs regarding the accident and the second one against the bar that served liquor to the juvenile. Police have booked the boy's father, a builder, for allowing him to drive the car without a valid license. A third case is about the wrongful confinement and coercion of the family driver to take the blame for the accident. Among the boy's family members, police have so far arrested his father, grandfather, and his (juvenile's) mother after confirmation that his blood samples were replaced with hers, Pune police chief Amitesh Kumar said on Saturday. Other .

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Pune car crash: Allegations against MLA Tingre baseless, says Ajit Pawar

Baseless allegations are being made against Pune MLA Sunil Tigre linking him to the Porsche crash that left two software engineers dead, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said on Saturday. Tingres belongs to the Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and represents the Vadgaon Sheri assembly constituency in Pune city. Earlier, there were allegations that Tingre had intervened to ensure that the juvenile got favourable treatment from police after the accident. Asked about Tingre's name popping up in connection with the case, Pawar told reporters, Sunil Tingre is an MLA of the area where the incident took place. Whenever such incidents take place, the local MLA often visits the site. Did Sunil Tingre try to suppress the matter? The allegations against him are baseless. When asked if he had called up Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar after this incident, Pawar said, I often call the commissioner of police over multiple issues but I haven't made a single call to him

Pune Porsche crash: Police arrest juvenile's mother in car accident case

Pune police have arrested the mother of the juvenile in the Porsche car accident case after confirmation that his blood samples were replaced with hers, the city police chief said on Saturday. She is likely to be produced in a court during the day. Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar said the accident investigation has revealed that the juvenile's blood samples were swapped with those of his mother. Police had told a local court two days ago that the blood samples of the juvenile were exchanged with those of a woman. Two IT professionals were killed in the early hours of May 19 in Kalyani Nagar in Pune after a Porsche allegedly being driven by the minor, who the police claim was drunk, rammed into their two-wheeler. While the 17-year-old minor has been sent to an observation home till June 5, his father, realtor Vishal Agarwal, and grandfather Surendra Agarwal have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping the family's driver and putting pressure on him to take the blame. A court o

Rahul Gandhi summoned by Pune court on Aug 19 in Savarkar defamation case

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Pune case: Police seek approval from Juvenile Justice Board to probe minor

The Pune police have written to the Juvenile Justice Board seeking permission to probe the minor allegedly involved in the Porsche crash that left two techies dead, an official said on Friday. Police claim the 17-year-old was driving the luxury car in an inebriated state when it met with the fatal accident in the city's Kalyani Nagar area on May 19. He 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, said Shailesh Balkawade, additional commissioner of police (crime). The JJB granted bail to the teenager, son of builder Vishal Agarwal, few hours after the crash and asked him a write a 300-word essay on road safety. Amid heavy criticism, police again approached the JJB, which modified the order and sent him to an observation home till June 5. The minor's father and grandfather have been arrested for allegedly wrongfully confining their family driver, luring him with cash and gifts and later threatening

Pune case: Will overhaul hospital system to make it foolproof, says Mushrif

Maharashtra minister Hasan Mushrif has promised to make the system at civil hospitals foolproof, an assurance coming in the wake of alleged manipulation of blood samples at Pune's Sassoon hospital in connection with the Porsche crash. The medical education minister was speaking to reporters in Mumbai on Thursday. Police have arrested Dr Ajay Taware, then head of the department of forensic medicine at Sassoon, medical officer Dr Shrihari Halnor and staffer Atul Ghatkamble for allegedly swapping the blood samples of the teenager, who police say was driving the Porsche. According to police, the minor driver was drunk at the time of the incident which resulted in the death of two IT professionals in the early hours of May 19 in Kalyani Nagar area of Pune city. The police found that Dr Ajay Taware was on leave on the night of the Pune accident and he got a call from someone. He accepted Rs 3 lakh, called Dr Halnor to manipulate the blood samples. This was absolutely wrong, Mushrif ...

Porsche crash case: Blood samples of others in car also collected, say cops

The blood samples of other three passengers in the Porsche allegedly driven by the 17-year-old were also collected after the fatal accident that claimed two lives, a police official familiar with the probe said here on Thursday. Further, the juvenile's parents were also present at the Sassoon General Hospital, he said. Earlier in the day, police told a court here that the juvenile's blood sample was replaced with that of a woman, and they were trying to find out this woman's identity. Sources in the Maharashtra public health department claimed that she was none other than his mother. When the samples were being taken on May 19 at the state-run hospital, the juvenile's father and mother were present as it is mandatory, the crime branch official said. "After the accident, the (Yerawada) police station had sent the juvenile, his two friends who were with him in the car and (family) driver to Sassoon General Hospital for giving blood samples. Of these samples, the juvenile's blood ...

Pune Porsche case: Police to employ AI to digitally recreate accident scene

The Pune crime branch officials will use artificial intelligence (AI)-based tools for the 'digital reconstruction' of the accident in the Porsche car crash case

Cost of living doesn't influence compensation packages: KPMG Survey

Cost of living in a particular city does not influence the compensation packages for talent, a survey of recruitment leaders undertaken by a consultancy firm revealed. Around 95 per cent of human resources leaders and talent acquisition heads from 40 companies across 10 sectors said "cost-of-living differences across Indian cities do not affect compensation decisions", as per the survey by KPMG in February and March. Earlier, there used to be a city compensatory allowance to compensate for a higher cost of living in metros or tier-I cities, but HR heads say very few employers are offering it now, it said, adding the compensation range is more or less the same for the same roles across the country. Employees consider residential rent, property indices, local purchasing power, and overall cost of essentials like goods, utilities, and transportation when evaluating the cost of living, it said. The survey found Pune among the cities to be excelling on the safety aspect. "Chennai, Navi

Pune crash: Doctor, teen's father exchanged 14 calls before sample switch

Porsche crash updates: The police said that it was the doctor's idea to switch the blood sample of the minor to show that no traces of alcohol were found in his body during the crash

Pune car crash: Panel to probe conduct of Juvenile Justice Board members

The Maharashtra government has set up a committee to probe the conduct of the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) members and check if norms were followed while issuing orders in the Pune car crash case, an official said on Wednesday. The five-member committee was formed last week by the state woman and child development department (WCD), he said. It is headed by a deputy commissioner-rank officer from the department and is expected to submit its report by next week, the official said. Two IT professionals in their 20s were killed after their motorcycle was hit by a speeding Porsche, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old boy, in the early hours of May 19 in Kalyani Nagar area of Pune. According to police, the teenager was drunk at the time. The JJB granted bail to the teenager hours after the incident. It also asked him to write a 300-word essay on road accidents, an order that drew an onslaught of criticism. WCD commissioner Prashant Narnavare said the JJB comprises a member from the judici

No link established yet to probe MLA Sunil Tingre, says Pune police

The Crime branch unit of Pune police is probing the high-profile Porsche car crash case in which they are currently interrogating two doctors of the Sassoon Hospital

Pune Porsche crash: Rs 3 lakh 'paid to swap' teen's blood sample, peon held

A peon from Sassoon General Hospital in Pune was arrested for allegedly accepting a Rs 3 lakh bribe to swap a teen's blood sample involved in a Porsche crash with an alcohol-free one

Pune car crash: Govt forms three-member panel after arrest of two doctors

The Maharashtra government has set up a three-member committee following the arrest of two doctors and an employee of Pune-based Sassoon General Hospital in connection with the alleged manipulation of the blood sample of the juvenile driver involved in the Porsche car crash. Medical Education Commissioner Rajiv Nivatkar on Monday issued the order appointing the dean of Grant Medical College and J J group of hospitals Dr Pallavi Sapale as the chairperson of the committee. The other members are Dr Gajanan Chavan, professor of the forensic medicine department of Grant Medical College, and Dr Sudhir Chowdhary, Special Duty Officer at Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar Government Medical College and Super Speciality Hospital. The committee is asked to visit Pune on Tuesday. The commissioner has also directed Dr Vinayak Kale, Dean of Sassoon General Hospital, to cooperate with the committee in the probe, as per the order. Pune Police arrested Dr Ajay Taware, head of the Sassoon Hospital's Foren

Pune Porsche case: 2 doctors arrested for manipulating teen's blood sample

Dr Ajay Taware, head of forensics department at Sassoon Hospital, and Dr Shrihari Harnor, chief medical officer, were arrested for manipulating teen's blood reports

Pune car crash: Teen's grandfather held for confinement' of family driver

The Pune police have arrested the grandfather of the 17-year-old minor who allegedly fatally knocked down two persons with his Porsche for alleged wrongful confinement of their family driver, an official said on Saturday. The teenager's father Vishal Agarwal, who is in judicial custody in connection with the car accident, has also been named in this case, he said. A day earlier, Pune police chief Amitesh Kumar had said that an attempt was made to establish that the high-end car was not driven by the minor. On a complaint by the family driver of the juvenile, the Yerawada police have registered a separate offence against the teen's grandfather and father, he said. The two have been booked under IPC sections 365 (kidnapping with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person) and 368 (wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement), he said. After the car crash, the teen's grandfather and father allegedly kept the driver's phone with them and put him in confinement in his house

Pune car crash: Action against bars affecting livelihood, employees protest

In the wake of action against pubs and bars by the local administration in Pune following the car crash incident involving a teenager, scores of employees from such establishments on Friday held protests here, stating they were losing their livelihood due to it. "We are facing the brunt of the fault of two bars," said an employee of a bar. Approximately 2,500 employees along with the owners of bars and pubs gathered at the Raja Bahadur Mills near Pune station area. After the Kalyaninagar incident, the district administration is taking action against several pubs and bars. As many as 32 such establishments in different parts of Pune faced action following orders from the Pune Collector. One of the women employees, who took part in the protest said, those pubs that are violating the rules should be punished. An employee at a pub in Mundhwa area said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, they suffered a lot. "Now after the accident, we are again made to suffer. We have our families to

Pune car crash: Juvenile's father, five others sent in judicial custody

A court here on Friday remanded Vishal Agarwal, father of a 17-year-old involved in a car crash that killed two persons in the city, and five other accused in the case in judicial custody till June 7. The prosecution had demanded extension of their police custody for further probe. But the court remanded Agarwal and others including the owner and employees of two liquor-serving establishments -- where the teenager had allegedly consumed alcohol before his Porsche car knocked down two software professionals on a motorbike -- in judicial custody instead. Attempts were made to make it appear that the minor was not at the wheel and some adult person was driving the car at the time of the accident on May 19, Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar had said earlier in the day.

Pune Porsche car crash: Latest updates

New developments have emerged in the Pune Porsche car crash case. The accused 17- year old has recently made claims that it was his driver who was driving the vehicle at the time of the crash, and not