According to Kumar, the Pune Police Commissioner, two doctors at government-run Sassoon Hospital conspired and threw away a 17-year-old blood sample into a waste basket and replaced it with that of somebody else.
Main points
- The boy’s blood was thrown in the dustbin by police and someone else’s substituted for his.
- A medical practitioner discloses that he swapped his samples as per the senior forensic head’s orders
- DNA testing confirmed that they were from different people.
On Monday, Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar announced the arrest of two doctors; one is the head of forensics at Sassoon Hospital in Pune where a teenager involved in a fatal Porsche accident was admitted while another is also from this health facility on suspicion of evidence tampering regarding blood samples during medical checks-ups conducted on him following an accident incident.
This development came after police found out that blood samples of a minor involved in an accident had been exchanged with those belonging to an individual who didn’t consume any alcoholic beverage. The original sample of the police youth was discarded in a dustbin according to them.
The minor had gone to Sassoon Hospital for a medical examination at 11 am on May 19 when the tragedy occurred. However, according to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) report, there was no presence of alcohol in the first one giving rise to suspicion.
A 2nd blood test was taken in another hospital and the DNA tests established that the samples were obtained from two separate human beings, thus leading to investigators’ suspicion of possible evidence tampering by government hospital doctors, that is aimed at protecting the juvenile offender.
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“Dr. Shrihari Halnor who took the solemn death sample of a minor was arrested last night. During grilling he exposed that Dr. Ajay Taware who is the head of Forensic Medicine had told him to alter the blood,” Said Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar during a press conference.
The commissioner added that after arresting these two doctors, they have now been charged with criminal conspiracy, forgery, and destruction of evidence in respect to the accident case.
“No alcohol was also found in his second blood sample,” Kumar said. “But our case is under section 304, culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The accused juvenile was in full knowledge that his act could endanger lives, so no alcohol traces in his blood sample does not affect our case anyway.”
Pune Porsche crash news
Ever since the Pune Porsche crash case began, there has been no shortage of controversy. The whole event which appears to be a minor traffic incident ends up as a family scandal laced with allegations of favoritism and connections with the underworld.
The teenager who was believed to be drunk while driving a Porsche was granted bail at first but later remanded into custody at an observation home till 5th June after public outcry.
In relation to this case, his father, real estate developer Vishal Agrawal, and grandfather have been arrested for trying to bribe and intimidate their (father’s) driver to claim that he caused the accident.
According to reports, Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta who were IT professionals died in a road accident when an over-speeding Porsche which was purportedly driven by the young man hit their bike.
Due to concerns regarding how this case has been handled; families of victims want investigations done under Supreme Court supervision.
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