On Thursday, the Supreme Court ordered Maharashtra government to submit its reply to the bail application of the father of 17-year-old accused in Porsche accident in Pune in 2024, which took the lives of two people. The Bombay High court denies his bail application on December 16 and Agarwal appeals to the apex court. He has also applied interim relief on grounds of parity with the rest of the co-accused who have been offered bail.
A three-judge court led by Justices B.V Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan suggested that it would grant relief since it was noted that Agarwal did not have control of the car during the accident. In case the state counsel was in opposition to the plea, the bench brought up the issue of whether it was necessary to keep the petitioner in jail, noting that the petitioner was not driving.
Appearing on behalf of Agarwal, senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi submitted that since June 1, 2024, or 21 months, his client has been in custody, and he is accused of planning to protect his son by organising the exchange of blood samples after the crash. He indicated that, the same bench on February 2 had bailed three other accused who were allegedly involved in the tampering of blood samples.
The prosecution asserts that the minor is purportedly drunk on alcohol when he crashed the luxury car into a motorbike in the Kalyani Nagar locality in Pune at approximately 2 a.m. resulting into the killing of two motorbike riders. Agarwal has argued that there was a driver hired to drive the car and that he did not know that his son had taken control over the car.
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