Pune car crash: Police grill grandfather of minor accused

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pune Police on Thursday questioned the grandfather of a 17-year-old boy who allegedly crashed his high-end car into a motorbike killing two persons earlier this week. The accused teenager’s friend and a driver who were accompanying him in the car during Sunday’s fatal accident in Kalyani Nagar area here were also questioned by the police. The teenager was remanded to the observation home by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) on Wednesday. His grandfather was summoned by the police on Thursday in connection with an offence registered against the juvenile’s father and staff members and the owner of two liquor-serving establishments in Mundhwa area, a crime branch official said. The senior citizen was confronted with his son, real estate developer Vishal Agarwal who has already been arrested, for the corroboration of certain facts, the official said. While the minor’s grandfather was being taken to face his son at the Police Commissioner’s office, some reporters tried to ask him questions, following which a man accompanying him heckled and obstructed them.

 

It led to a heated exchange before the police intervened. A rap song purportedly featuring the teenager, boasting about how he got away with the car crash, went viral on social media, but police clarified that it was a fake account and the teenager had nothing to do with the video. Meanwhile, Ajay Bhosale, a former Shiv Sena Corporator, accused the teenager’s grandfather of having links with the underworld. Bhosale, Shiv Sena’s candidate from Wadgaon Sheri Assembly constituency in 2009, was allegedly shot at during the election campaign in Koregaon Park area. He escaped unhurt, his driver Shakil Sayyad was injured. The case is currently being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and the grandfather of the teenager has been named as accused number 6 in it, while gangster Chhota Rajan, currently in jail, is accused number 3. As per an order passed by a court, there was a dispute over property between the grandfather of the juvenile and his brother. The accused sought the help of Vijay Salvi, alleged henchman of Rajan, to persuade his brother to hand over his share of the property.

 

Speaking to a Marathi channel, Bhosale said he had friendly relations with the brother. “He called Chhota Rajan and told him that I was his brother’s close friend and supported him, and gave my ‘supari’ (contract) to Chhota Rajan to eliminate me,” Bhosale claimed. The accused grandfather is currently on anticipatory bail in the case. A Porsche, allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers in the early hours of Sunday. The teenager was then produced before the JJB which granted him bail while asking him to write a 300-word essay. Following an outcry over quick bail and the police’s review plea, the JJB remanded the boy to the observation home till June 5. “The Child-in-Conflict with Law (CCL) was immediately sent to the Nehru Udyog Kendra observation home, located at Yerawada, where he is staying with the other CCLs,” the official from the facility said.