Pune Porsche Accident: Minor’s Father Sent To Police Custody Until May 24 | Pune Accident News [Video]

Pune Porsche Accident News Updates: Ahead of the hearing before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), Pune police added some more sections against the 17-year-old accused. Apart from section 185 of the Motor Vehicle Act (driving by a drunken person), sections 184 (action against those who violate traffic rules through rash or dangerous driving), 119 (age limit in connection with the driving of motor vehicles) and 177 (general provision for punishment of offences) have been added.

The juvenile justice board heard the application of Pune police to try the 17-year-old accused as an adult. The JJB has reserved the order and may pronounce it between 4 and 4:30 pm.

A Porsche car allegedly driven by the teenager, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers in Kalyani Nagar in Pune city in the early hours of Sunday.

The father of the 17-year-old, Vishal Agarwal, a real estate developer, was sent to two days of police custody by a session court on Wednesday. according to the remand copy, Vishal Agarwal was not cooperating with police in the investigation therefore, Pune police sought his custody for further questioning.

When police sent him the notice to join the investigation before his arrest, he misled them by stating that he was in Shirdi but he was in Aurangabad. When Vishal was arrested he was carrying a simple Nokia phone and a Kia company-manufactured car. Both have been confiscated by the police.

The police had registered a case against the teenager’s father under sections 75 and 77 of the Juvenile Justice Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Section 75 deals with “willful neglect of a child, or exposing a child to mental or physical illnesses,” while section 77 deals with supplying a child with intoxicating liquor or drugs.

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