Pune police on Friday said they are trying to make a “watertight” case against all accused in the matter where the 17-year-old boy allegedly fatally knocked down two persons with his high-end car. Addressing the media, Pune Police Commissioner, Amitesh Kumar said the minor was in his senses and was aware of what is he doing at the time of the accident.
“We are trying to make this a watertight case. We have already filed a case against the father of the accused and the bar owners. The technical analysis of the evidence is underway,” Kumar said.
The officer said police have the CCTV footage of the accused drinking liquor in the pub.
“The point of saying this is that our case is not alone depending on the blood report we have other evidence also. He (the minor accused) was in his senses. It was not as if all of them were so drunk that they could not understand anything. They had full knowledge that due to their conduct, an incident like section 304 cab happen. There is no fact about the pizza party at the police station,” Kumar said.
On the allegation of the Agarwal family’s driver being pressured to take the blame for the accident, the officer said, “An effort was made to change the driver during that period…We are investigating this also…It is true that at the start the driver had said that he was driving the car…We are investigating this part also under whose pressure the driver made that statement we are investigating it.”
Over the allegations of any preferential treatment given to minors, the top cop said an ACP rank officer is investigating the allegations.
“On the allegations of preferential treatment given to the accused as of now, nothing has been found in the investigation…If we receive any information that the eyewitness had to face any trouble action will be taken against those police personnel as well…We have not received the blood report yet. The blood report was taken at the very first and sent to forensic…We have requested the forensic to take a DNA sample of both the samples,” he said.
Further giving details about the incident, the official said after the incident primary facie case under section 304 A was registered and later section 304 was added.
“That same day we presented him to the Juvenile Justice Board and urged them to consider it as a heinous crime and treat the accused as an adult. Till the order to consider an adult is passed we wanted to keep the accused in remand observation home…Both our applications were rejected that very day…Under the Juvenile Justice Act, we registered a case against his parents and the pub owner,” he said.
About the delay in the minor’s medical examination, the officer said, “We have not received blood reports of the teen yet. We have taken two individual samples and will cross-check if both are the same.”
On reports claiming that some eyewitnesses were harassed by the accused, Kumar said there is no such evidence found till now.
Kumar said the police are investigating both cases minutely and with full sensitivity to ensure justice for victims and proper punishment for the accused.
“We have started the process of appointing a special counsel in the case so that our side should be kept strongly in the case in court. Police are on the stringent way to handle this case,” he added.
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