Porsche crash: Govt gives sanction to prosecute Sassoon hospital doctors, staffer accused of changing blood samples

Two IT engineers Aneesh Awadhiya and his person Ashwini Koshta, some 24 and from Madhya Pradesh, were killed aft a speeding Porsche driven by a 17-year-old lad allegedly successful an inebriated authorities deed their motorcycle astatine Pune’s Kalyani Nagar junction astir 2.30 americium connected May 19 this year.

Same day, a first accusation report (FIR) was lodged against the insignificant car operator astatine the Yerwada constabulary station. The constabulary probe revealed that erstwhile the insignificant accused was taken to the government-run Sassoon Hospital aft the mishap for a aesculapian examination, his humor illustration was allegedly replaced with his mother’s.

Police past arrested 7 persons, including the parents of the insignificant boy, Dr Taware, Dr Halnor, Ghatkamble and backstage persons Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad.

According to the police, Makandar and Gaikwad allegedly acted arsenic “middledmen” betwixt the minor’s parents and doctors astatine Sassoon Hospital. Police said Makandar allegedly took Rs 4 lakh from the minor’s begetter astatine a edifice successful Kalyani Nagar and gave it to the Sassoon staffers for changing humor samples. Police said they person recovered Rs 2.5 lakh from Dr Halnor and Rs 50,000 from Ghatkamble. The remaining Rs 1 lakh is yet to beryllium recovered.

On July 25, constabulary had filed a preliminary chargesheet of astir 900 pages against 7 accused persons. Now that the authorisation to prosecute the 3 nationalist servants has been received, the prosecution would present statesman the process of framing charges against the 7 accused.

Meanwhile, a DNA study connected August 9 confirmed that humor samples of the 2 friends of the insignificant were besides swapped astatine Sassoon hospital. Both friends, who excessively are minors, were successful the Porsche astatine the clip of the accident.

Police booked the fathers of some friends and a backstage idiosyncratic successful this case. One of them was arrested for allegedly giving his humor illustration to regenerate it with his son’s. Blood illustration of the 2nd person was allegedly swapped with that of a backstage idiosyncratic arsenic per the instructions of his father. The idiosyncratic successful question was arrested, portion the father’s exertion seeking anticipatory bail was rejected by the Bombay High Court.

Police had submitted a “final report” against the insignificant operator astatine the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) connected June 17 and the “supplementary last report” connected September 26.