PUNE: The prosecution in the May 19 Porsche crash case told a special court on Sunday that the police needed to collect blood from the 17-year-old’s parents for DNA fingerprinting as part of their investigation into the blood sample manipulation. The crash had left two software engineers in Kalyaninagar dead.
Crime branch’s investigating officer Sunil Tambe produced the teenager’s parents before special judge AS Waghmare and moved a plea through the prosecutor, seeking their remand for seven days.The prosecutor said that the police wanted to question the couple in front of the two Sassoon General Hospital doctors and a class IV employee to unravel the entire transaction till the blood sample was changed.
The police also needed to arrest the two men, one of whom facilitated a contact between the teenager’s father, a prominent city builder, and Dr Ajay Taware, and the other who, at the builder’s behest, handed over Rs 3 lakh to Dr Shrihari Halnor, the prosecutor told the court. The duo, who was captured in the cameras on the hospital premises, is a vital link in the probe, Tambe said.
According to the police, Dr Halnor collected blood from the minor but did not store it in a vial. Later, he drew sample from his mother, labelled a vial with the teenager’s name, and sent it to the forensic science laboratory to test for alcohol content, Tambe said. The police officer said that they wanted to find that syringe containing the minor’s blood which they suspected to have been given by Dr Halnor to the teenager’s parents for disposal.
The special court granted the parents’ police custody till June 5.
Crime branch’s investigating officer Sunil Tambe produced the teenager’s parents before special judge AS Waghmare and moved a plea through the prosecutor, seeking their remand for seven days.The prosecutor said that the police wanted to question the couple in front of the two Sassoon General Hospital doctors and a class IV employee to unravel the entire transaction till the blood sample was changed.
The police also needed to arrest the two men, one of whom facilitated a contact between the teenager’s father, a prominent city builder, and Dr Ajay Taware, and the other who, at the builder’s behest, handed over Rs 3 lakh to Dr Shrihari Halnor, the prosecutor told the court. The duo, who was captured in the cameras on the hospital premises, is a vital link in the probe, Tambe said.
According to the police, Dr Halnor collected blood from the minor but did not store it in a vial. Later, he drew sample from his mother, labelled a vial with the teenager’s name, and sent it to the forensic science laboratory to test for alcohol content, Tambe said. The police officer said that they wanted to find that syringe containing the minor’s blood which they suspected to have been given by Dr Halnor to the teenager’s parents for disposal.
The special court granted the parents’ police custody till June 5.
