On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the bail of three suspects charged with the evidence tampering offence in the high-stakes 2024 Pune Porsche crash, emphasizing that there could not be any punishment preceding conviction. The apex court also encouraged the Maharashtra government to focus on the main case which is the juvenile driver whose rash and drunken driving allegedly ended the lives of two people.
The Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan issued a bail order to Aditya Avinash Sood, Ashish Satish Mittal and Amar Santosh Gaikwad. The court indicated that the bail would be subject to conditions by the trial court. The appellants were given a clear warning by the judges not to communicate with the witnesses directly or indirectly on the fact that it would result in the cancellation of the bail. They were also instructed to cooperate amicably with the trial proceedings.
The observations were made following complaints by the state government that the accused was procrastinating the case by obtaining a stay on the framing of charges. In reaction to this, the bench added that the accused persons in the current case were not the master criminals. The court summoned the state to concentrate on the crime, convicting and sentencing the three but pointed out that the three only had a case to answer in regard to two juveniles who were not at the wheel of the vehicle that would have been involved in the accident.
The next important aspect that the Supreme Court took into account was that the accused man spent approximately 18 months in prison. The accused were represented by senior advocates Mukul Rohatgi, Siddharth Dave and Siddharth Aggarwal who asserted that the alleged role of their clients could not warrant long-term custody.
Sood is a father of one of the juveniles in the car and he is charged with plotting the change of blood sample of his son.
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