The 17-year-old rash driver’s grandfather had intimidated the family’s driver and asked him to take the blame of driving the Porsche car. Notably, the accident left two 24-year-old techies dead in Pune.
In his statement to the cops, the 42-year-old had said that soon after the accident took place, he received a call from the teen’s grandfather.
“He initially called me up and shouted at me. Then, he forcibly took me to their house in their car,” the driver stated.
The teen’s father and his grandfather snatched the driver’s phone and confined him to their house. “I was asked to take the entire blame. He told me, ‘If you talk to anyone about this, remember…’,” the driver has now stated.
The grandfather of the teen has been taken into custody for wrongful confinement, abduction and criminal intimidation of the driver.
The teen was said to be driving at 200 km per hour. He was badly inebriated. However, now he has been sent to an observation home till June 5. The teen’s father, a big-time realtor, has been arrested under sections of the Juvenile Justice Act.
Ashwini Kostha and Anish Awadhiya, two engineers were on a motorbike when a Porsche car hit their bike from behind. They died on the spot.
The boy was given bail within a few hours of the accident. The boy was asked to write a 300-word essay on road accidents, told to work with traffic cops for 15 days and seek counselling for his drinking.
Later allegations resurfaced that the family had tried to bypass the legal processes to shield their son. The teen’s grandfather is also an accused in an attempted murder case.
