Teen Who Killed 2 With Porsche Got Bail In 15 Hours

The 17-year Teen boy at the wheel of the speeding Porsche that hit a bike in Pune Saturday night, killing a man and a woman, was out on bail 15 hours after he was arrest. His lawyer Prashant Patil said a court granted bail to the minor on conditions he has to work with traffic police in Yerwada for 15 days, write an essay on accidents, undergo treatment for his drinking habit and take counselling sessions. The accused is the son of a prominent Pune realtor.

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High-Speed Porsche Crash Kills Two Engineers in Pune

Twenty-four-year-olds Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both engineers from Madhya Pradesh working in Pune, were returning on a bike after attending a get-together with friends. The Porsche, which eyewitnesses have said was driving at over 200 km per hour and had no number plates, hit the bike. An eyewitness said that the impact threw Ashwini about 20 feet into the air, causing her to land hard. Aneesh suffered serious injuries after being thrown against a parked car. Both died on the spot.

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Driver and Occupants Caught After High-Speed Accident

“The accident took place around 2.15 am. The car was in full speed. The driver was fleeing after the car hit the bike, but the airbags deployed. He could not see the road and parked the car. And locals caught them. Besides the driver, there were two occupants in the car. One of them escaped. The crowd beat up the other two,” said an eyewitness, an auto-rickshaw operator waiting for a ride.

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Police to Treat Accused as Adult, Seek Custody

Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said police had urged the court to treat the accused as an adult because this is a “heinous crime” and sought his custody. Police will approach the sessions court against the bail order, he said. “The father of the juvenile accuse who hand over this car without a number plate to him to drive and allowd him to go to a pub has also been proceede against. The establishment that served alcohol has also been proceede against,” he said. 

The case is now being investigate by an Assistant Commissioner of Police-level officer and a “watertight case is being made out”, he said. The police commissioner said it is clear that the boy was driving under the influence of alcohol. Several eyewitnesses have said the teenager and his friends were heavily drunk.