Pune: Pune Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said the 17-year-old son of a prominent builder spent ₹48,000 in just 90 minutes at one of the two pubs he visited before ramming his luxury Porsche Taycan into a motorcycle early on Sunday morning, killing two young IT professionals.
Amitesh Kumar said the teen driver and his friends first visited Cosie restaurant-pub at 10:40pm on Saturday, where they racked up the ₹48,000 bill. They moved to a second pub, Blak Mariott, at 12:10am after Cosie stopped serving them.
We have obtained the ₹48,000 bill from Cosie, which includes the cost of the liquor served to the teenager and his friends,” the print media quoted Amitesh Kumar as saying.
Amitesh Kumar told the media that the teenager was taken for a medical test in the early hours on Sunday and his blood has been taken and sent for a forensic report.
“Here, we are not applying a case of 304(a) of the Indian Penal Code of drunken driving and a rash and negligent act. We are applying Section 304, where we are saying that he had the knowledge that his rash act – where he was driving a Porsche without a number plate at a rash speed on a narrow street after consuming alcohol – could cause or was likely to cause death,” the police commissioner told the news channel.
A case under the Juvenile Justice Act (sections 75 and 77) had been filed by the police against the father of the teenage boy, a real estate agent. The proprietors and staff of the pub were also charged with serving alcohol to a person who was under the legal drinking age. Within the Juvenile Justice Act, section 75 deals with “deliberate neglect of a child, or subjecting a child to mental or physical illnesses,” and section 77 deals with giving alcohol or narcotics to a minor.
The guy knew that his kid did not have a legal driver’s license, yet he nevertheless gave his youngster the automobile anyhow, endangering his life. Despite being fully aware that his son consumes alcohol, he also permitted his son to go to parties.
After the mishap, the juvenile was taken into custody, but the Juvenile Justice Board released him on bond after 15 hours. The board ordered him to write a “300-word essay” about traffic accidents in order to be released on bond.
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