Teen’s family driver was offered cash, gifts and then threatened to be blamed for crash: police

Pune: Father and grandfather of 17-year-old allegedly involved in Porsche crash offered money and gifts to their family’s driver and then threatened to take responsibility for the crash , Pune police chief Amitesh Kumar said on Saturday.

The driver and his family will benefit from police protection, he said. Blood and DNA sample reports in the case are expected next week, Kumar said. Police arrested the grandfather for allegedly kidnapping the driver in an attempt to force him to claim he was driving the car at the time of the May 19 crash, he said.

After the accident, the driver told the police that he was driving when the accident took place. But it was revealed that a teenager was driving the car, the police commissioner said.

Kumar said that after the driver left the Yerawada police station, where the case was registered, and was on his way, the two accused took him in a car to his house located in their bungalow, confiscated his phone and locked him there.

He was pressured to give his statement to police as instructed, he said. The driver was offered gifts and cash and then threatened to take responsibility, the official said. The driver’s wife arrived at the scene the next day and freed him, the police chief said.

The driver was scared. He was summoned and his statement was recorded on Thursday. After corroborating the facts, an offense against the father and grandfather of the minor was registered, he said. In this case, the police registered a case against the teenager’s father Vishal Agarwal and his grandfather on the complaint of the family driver.

Agarwal, a real estate developer, and his father were booked under IPC sections 365 (kidnapping with intent to secretly and unjustly confine a person) and 368 (concealment or unjust continued detention), he said. he declares. Agarwal is already in judicial custody.

The family’s driver said he was not driving the car at the time of the accident and that the teenager’s relatives were using pressure tactics to push him to take responsibility for the accident. The driver and his family will be given police protection, Kumar said, adding that he was in shock after his wrongful detention.

The Pune police on Friday suspended two police officers, including an inspector of Yerwada police station, for delay in presenting themselves and dereliction of duty in the case. Kumar said the police officers faced action as their conduct was not appropriate.

The Porsche, allegedly driven by the teenager, who police said was drunk at the time, killed two software engineers on a motorcycle in Kalyani Nagar area in the wee hours of Sunday, May 19. A local court in Pune on Friday took into custody all six accused arrested in the case, including the teenager’s father. The teenager is in an observation home until June 5.

The parents of the two IT workers killed in the accident, based in Madhya Pradesh, have demanded that the Supreme Court supervise the investigation and the trial be held in their state.