Pune accident: Accused minor's father arrested in abduction case, sent to judicial custody

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], May 27 (ANI): In a recent development, the father of the accused minor who hit two people with his Porsche car killing them was brought to the Crime Branch and officially arrested in an abduction case.
After the Pune District Court granted Pune Police custody of the accused father in the driver abduction case related to the car crash case, he was placed under judicial custody at Yerwada Jail.
The accused hospital staff, the accused doctor and the grandfather of the accused minor were brought to the Crime Branch. All three accused arrested in the blood sample manipulation case have been sent to police custody till May 30. The accused include two doctors, Dr Ajay Taware, HOD of the Forensic Medicine Department and CMO Dr Srihari Halnor and Atul Ghatakmalbe, another employee of Sassoon Hospital.
Pune Police have arrested another individual in connection with the luxury car accident case where two motorcycle-borne persons were killed in Pune city, officials said.
The arrested person is a suspect in the alleged manipulation of the minor's blood sample, according to Pune Police officials.
The arrested accused has been identified as Atul Ghatkamble, who is an employee of Sassoon Hospital.
Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said that the doctors at Sasson Hospital had replaced the blood sample of the juvenile accused in the luxury car crash with another one and threw the real sample in the hospital's dustbin.
Earlier, the Crime Branch unit on May 25 morning arrested the grandfather of the minor accused in the case.
Amitesh Kumar said that the grandfather of the accused was arrested and a separate FIR has been registered against him under IPC sections 365 and 368.
The minor ploughed his swanky Porsche into the two IT professionals, who were travelling on a bike, killing them on the spot on the night of May 19. (ANI)