In another twist in the Pune Porsche crash, the mother of the 17-year-old accused in the case has reportedly gone incommunicado. Some local reports have claimed that the teenager’s blood samples were swapped with his mother’s, but there is no confirmation on this.
The speculation over this surfaced after the probe panel, which is looking into the alleged manipulation of blood samples, was told that the changed sample “belongs to a female”. In a report to the three-member committee, doctors at Sassoon hospital have said the teenager’s blood sample was swapped with a woman’s.
Shivani Agarwal, the mother of the juvenile accused, had come to the fore after a video was widely circulated on social media claiming that her son uploaded a rap video on the day he was granted bail. But, she had clarified that the video featuring her son is “fake”.
The police are now unable to contact Shivani, whose statement in the case was earlier recorded by the Pune crime branch at the Agarwal residence.
According to News18 sources, the Pune crime branch has also summoned some nurses, who are members of the staff at the Sassoon hospital. They are being questioned regarding the swapping of the blood samples, they added.
Sassoon hospital doctors submitted their report to the probe panel on Wednesday (May 29). The Maharashtra medical education (MME) department formed the committee headed by Dr Pallavi Sapale, dean of Mumbai-based Grants Medical College, on May 27 after the police claimed that the teenager’s blood samples were discarded and replaced with another person’s samples, which showed no traces of alcohol, at Pune’s Sassoon General Hospital.
Police have arrested Dr Ajay Taware, head of the state-run hospital’s forensic medicine department, chief medical officer Dr Shrihari Halnor and staff member Atul Ghatkamble in connection with the incident.
Two IT professionals in their 20s were killed after their motorcycle was hit by a speeding Porsche, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old, in the early hours of May 19 in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar area. According to police, the teenager, son of builder Vishal Agarwal, was drunk at the time.
(With PTI inputs)
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