The 17-year-old teenager involved in the tragic Pune Porsche collision that claimed the lives of two tech professionals has complied with his bail conditions by submitting a 300-word essay on road safety to the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), as confirmed by an official on Friday.
As per the official, the essay was presented to the JJB on Wednesday through the news agency PTI.
Initially, the teenager was released from an observation home after the Bombay High Court declared his detention unlawful. Following the accident on May 19 in Kalyani Nagar, the JJB had placed him under the care of his parents and assigned the essay as part of his bail conditions.
Allegations from the police suggest that the teenager was driving a Porsche while under the influence of alcohol, leading to a collision with a two-wheeler that resulted in the tragic deaths of the two software engineers. The public expressed outrage over what was perceived as lenient bail conditions, prompting the police to request a review from the JJB. Subsequently, the board transferred him to an observation home on May 22.
However, the High Court later ruled that his detention was illegal and emphasized the importance of enforcing juvenile justice laws, ultimately resulting in his release.
In a separate development on July 2, a Pune court granted bail to the father and grandfather of the juvenile, who were accused of kidnapping and unlawfully confining their family driver, coercing him to take responsibility for the accident.
The boy’s father, Vishal Agarwal, a well-known builder, and his grandfather were arrested in May and have been in judicial custody since then. While Agarwal remains in custody due to a separate cheating case, the grandfather has been released.
According to the police, the teenager’s father and grandfather allegedly abducted their family driver shortly after the accident, confined him at their residence, and attempted to coerce him into falsely admitting that he, not the juvenile, was driving during the collision.
Following the accident, there were several efforts to conceal the incident to protect the minor, including the swapping of his blood samples at the hospital where he was taken for a sobriety test.