Police add forgery, corruption charges against 17-year-old in Pune Porsche crash case

NEW DELHI: Pune Police have filed additional charges of destruction of evidence, forgery, and offenses under the Prevention of Corruption Act against the 17-year-old juvenile involved in the fatal Kalyani Nagar Porsche crash. A supplementary final report detailing these charges was submitted before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) on Thursday, an official confirmed.
The initial report, which charged the teenager with 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), was filed in June.
The fresh charges come in connection with the May 19 incident, when the teenager, allegedly under the influence of alcohol, crashed a Porsche into a motorbike, killing two young IT professionals, Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, at Kalyani Nagar in the early hours of the morning.
"The supplementary report has been filed, adding charges under IPC sections 201 (causing disappearance of evidence), 213, 214 (screening offenders), and multiple sections related to forgery including 466, 467, 468, and 471," a crime branch official said.
The Prevention of Corruption Act has also been invoked, with the police alleging that the juvenile, in collusion with his parents, doctors from Sassoon Hospital, and middlemen, attempted to swap blood samples to conceal his intoxication at the time of the crash.
According to the police, there was an effort to replace the juvenile’s blood samples to obscure evidence that he had been driving under the influence. Additionally, technical data about the car’s speed at the time of the incident, along with witness statements, have been included to support the newly added charges. The supplementary report was submitted by Assistant Commissioner of Police Ganesh Ingale, with Special Public Prosecutor Shishir Hiray representing the case.
Following a high court order, the teen's parents, two doctors from Sassoon General Hospital, and five others, including middlemen, remain in judicial custody.
The juvenile had initially been granted bail with relatively lenient conditions, such as writing an essay on road safety and spending time with traffic police to understand traffic rules which caused an uproar.