03-05-2025
Pune Porsche crash case: Arrest of labour contractor, jeweller legal, says prosecution
Pune: The prosecution informed a special court on Saturday that the arrest of a labour contractor and his jeweller friend in the May 19, 2024, Porsche Taycan car crash case was legal and police communicated in writing the reasons for taking action against them.
Special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray, in his counter-submission, dismissed the defence lawyers' claim that assistant commissioner of police (crime) Ganesh Ingale did not communicate the reasons for arresting their clients.
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Hiray presented copies of chargesheets, remand reports, and the case diary to prove his point and said signatures were obtained on the arrest memo under sections of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC).
The prosecution argued that the accused could not claim bail on the grounds of parity merely because the mother of the minor Porsche car driver was granted anticipatory bail by the Supreme Court on April 22. The mother, being a woman, claimed bail as per the provision of section 437 (bail to be granted to women in non-bailable offences) of the CrPC, he said. In contrast, the accused filed bail pleas under section 439 of the CrPC (power of sessions court to grant bail in non-bailable offences) and was not entitled to claim the benefit of parity.
The bail plea hearing will continue on May 6.
The labour contractor's son was among the two minors accompanying the 17-year-old driver of the high-end car at the time of the accident, which claimed the lives of two young software engineers in Kalyaninagar. Police's case is that the jeweller friend provided his blood sample to swap it with that of the contractor's minor son.
