10-07-2025
Pune Porsche Crash: Attempt Made To Tamper With Minor's 2nd Blood Sample, Says Prosecution
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In the 2024 Pune Porsche crash case, the prosecution revealed the minor accused's second blood sample was attempted to tamper with at the hospital, allegedly by his parents
In a startling revelation that has emerged in the 2024 Pune Porsche crash case, the prosecution has told the court that an attempt was made to tamper with the minor accused's second blood sample that was supposed to collected 'secretly" at Aundh District Hospital, allegedly at the behest of his parents and a middleman. The prosecution submitted this information under CrPC Section 173(8), which allows for further investigation after a chargesheet is filed.
According to a reported by The Indian Express, quoting a Crime Branch officer, 'Under the Criminal Procedure Code section 173(8), which allows further investigation in the case after chargesheet has been filed, we have submitted to the court some important findings in the form of an investigation note and supporting documents and records. These findings and supporting records show that the father and mother of the minor driver and middleman Ashpak Makandar had gone to the district hospital in Aundh when the minor was taken there to collect a second blood sample in the evening on May 19, 2024, by the police team."
The second sample was meant to be collected secretly following suspicions of tampering with the first sample taken at Sassoon General Hospital earlier that morning, hours after the fatal crash that killed two IT professionals, Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, at Kalyani Nagar junction on May 19, 2024.
At the Aundh district hospital, these family of the accused made an attempt to tamper with the 17-year-old accused's blood sample, said the officer, however, the doctors at the hospital refused to do so. 'At the district hospital in Aundh, these accused again made an attempt to tamper with the blood sample. While the sample was supposed to be taken secretly, family members still learned about it, as some of them were at the Yerawada police station in the aftermath of the accident. As the parents and middleman made attempts to tamper with the blood sample, the doctors at the Aundh hospital refused to do so," The Indian Express quoted the officer as saying.
This alleged failed tampering attempt came just hours after the prosecution claims that the first blood sample at Sassoon General Hospital was swapped with that of the boy's mother. DNA reports later confirmed that the swab from Sassoon did not belong to the minor's father, and was in fact matched to the mother.
The second blood sample, taken at 6 pm at Aundh hospital, was sent for forensic analysis along with the Sassoon sample and a DNA sample from the minor's father, collected after his arrest on May 21. The Indian Express earlier reported that these results confirmed a major criminal conspiracy, with evidence pointing to involvement from top medical staff, the minor's parents, and several middlemen.
On June 27, Special Public Prosecutor Shishir Hiray formally opened the prosecution case under CrPC Section 226, detailing the charges against the 10 accused. He submitted to the court what the prosecution believes is sufficient evidence to frame charges, including criminal conspiracy and destruction of evidence.
Among those arraigned are Dr Ajay Taware, then head of forensic medicine at Sassoon; Dr Shrihari Halnor, then the casualty medical officer; hospital mortuary staffer Atul Ghatkamble; and middlemen Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad, who allegedly facilitated the tampering.
The minor's 51-year-old father and 50-year-old mother have also been booked for criminal conspiracy and influencing the forensic process. Additionally, a 37-year-old man and two other parents were arrested for allegedly providing their own blood to substitute samples of the minor's co-passengers, in a wider web of attempted evidence manipulation.
The crash occurred after the minor, who had just passed his Class 12 exams, celebrated the results with friends at a pub in Pune last year. Allegedly intoxicated, he was driving a Porsche Taycan with no number plates when it crashed into the victims' motorcycle.
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July 10, 2025, 13:46 IST
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