The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to three persons accused of tampering with blood samples in connection with an investigation into a car crash in Pune in May 2024 that killed two, Bar and Bench reported.
A bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan granted bail to Aditya Avinash Sood, Ashish Satish Mittal and Santosh Gaikwad, saying that all three of them had been in custody for 18 months.
“..their continued incarceration will greatly prejudice...[the matter],” Bar and Bench quoted the court as saying.
The case pertains to the death of two persons after a 17-year-old boy allegedly crashed into their motorbike with his Porsche car in Pune on May 19, 2024. The minor, reportedly from the family of a prominent city realtor, was allegedly driving under the influence ofalcohol.
He was booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The prosecution had alsoalleged that the father of the juvenile driver, his wife and his associates conspired with doctors at Sassoon General Hospital to manipulate test reports of the blood samples collected after the accident to check for alcohol content.
The legal news portal quoted the prosecution as claiming that Rs 3 lakh was also paid to the hospital staff through intermediaries to ensure that the tests showed no traces of alcohol.
Gaikwad was accused of having facilitated the...
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