Bombay High Court denies bail to eight accused in Pune Porches car hit-and-run case

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Tuesday denied bail to Vishal Agarwal, the father of the minor who was arrested in the Pune Porches hit-and-run case for allegedly falsifying the medical and blood sample reports to save his minor son from the case.Vishal Agarwal’s minor son had killed two Madhya Pradesh engineers in the accident.The high court also denied bail to the other seven accused in the Porches crash case, which includes Ashish Mittal, Aditya Sood, Arunkumar Singh, Ashpak Makandar, Dr Ajay Taware and Dr Shrihari Halnor.Dr Taware and Halnor are booked for replacing the blood samples of the prime accused and the other minor accused, who were sitting on the passenger seat at the time of the accident. Taware is the head of the Forensic Medicine Department, and Halnor is the Chief Medical Officer. Makandar is the middleman who connected Vishal with Taware and Halnor for swapping the blood samples. The accused were arrested under various provisions of the then Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Prevention of Corruption Act.A single-judge bench of Bombay High Court Justice Shyam Chandak passed an order stating that the offence against the accused was serious and there was a possibility of them tampering with evidence and influencing the witnesses in the case.The special public prosecutor for the state, Shishir Hiray, had argued that the accused fabricated the vital evidence in the case.He further highlighted the fact that the witnesses in the case are medical students, poor persons and can be easily threatened. He also opposed the bail application of the eight accused in this case.



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