Pune Porsche crash: mother of teen who killed 2 techies arrested

The mother of the 17-year-old accused involved in the Porsche car accident case has been arrested, Pune's Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar told ANI news agency on Saturday.

The accused's mother came under the radar after it was reported that the doctors at state-run Sasson Hospital used her blood to swap with the teen to fudge the report to show that he wasn't drunk while driving during the accident.

Two doctors and a staffer of that hospital were later arrested for producing fake blood report. The father of the 17-year-old was also caught for allegedly bribing them.

The Pune police moved the application for the juvenile's father's custody in connection with the alleged swapping of blood samples. The juvenile's father is an accused in the blood swap case along with two doctors of the Sassoon General Hospital.

"We have moved an application to take custody of the juvenile's father on a production warrant from Yerawada Central Jail, where he was sent after being remanded in judicial custody today. Once we receive his custody on a production warrant, we will produce him in the court and seek his custody to investigate," a senior Crime Branch official told PTI news agency.

As per police, some 12 calls were made between the juvenile's father and Dr Ajay Taware, one of the doctors arrested in the blood swap case, while samples were being collected for testing for alcohol consumption.

As per the police, the blood sample of the minor was replaced with that of a woman to destroy evidence of alcohol consumption.

The juvenile has been sent to an observation home till June 5.

(With PTI inputs)

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