Intend to treat teen accused as adult, bid foiled to save him: Pune police on Porsche crash

NEW DELHI: The Pune police have said that they intend to try the accused teenager in the recent Porsche car crash, which claimed two lives, as an adult.

Police said that the authorities are determined to ensure a thorough investigation and a 'watertight' case against the accused.

Commissioner of Police Amitesh Kumar confirmed on Friday that the parents of the accused teen had given him the keys of the car involved in the accident.

He also addressed allegations of attempts to prove that the teen wasn't driving the Porsche Taycan under the influence and to frame the driver as the one behind the wheel at the time of the crash.

The police are currently investigating the driver's initial statement, in which he claimed to be driving vehicle at the time of the crash. According to Amitesh Kumar , the authorities are looking into the possibility of external pressure influencing the driver's initial account.

Kumar firmly denied reports suggesting that the driver was behind the wheels at the time of the accident, saying, "It is true that at the start, the driver had said that he was driving the car. We are investigating this part also under whose pressure the driver made that statement."

We have the CCTV footage of him drinking liquor in the pub... The point of saying this is that our case is not alone depending on the blood report, we have other evidence also. He (the minor accused) was in his senses. It was not as if all of them were so drunk that they could not understand anything. They had full knowledge that due to their conduct, an incident like section 304 could happen. There is no fact about the pizza party at the police station...,"

He said that the police are currently investigating the driver's initial statement, in which he claimed to be driving vehicle at the time of the crash. He further asserted that the video evidence in their possession clearly shows the 17-year-old behind the wheels of the luxury sedan.

"We are investigating both the case minutely and with full sensitivity. We are making a watertight case. An ACP-rank officer is probing the allegations that the minor was given any preferential treatment... The victims will get justice and the accused will be punished. We have started the process of appointing a special counsel in the case so that our side should be put strongly in the case in court," he said.

If we receive any information that the eyewitness had to face any trouble during the investigations, action will be taken against those police personnel as well...We have not received the blood report of the teen accused yet. Blood samples were taken immediately following the detention of the accused and were sent for forensic tests...We have requested the forensic lab to take a DNA sample of both the samples..." he added further.


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