24 May,2024 01:46 PM IST | Pune | mid-day online correspondent
Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar/ File Photo
Amid the intensifying heat from the public over the Pune car crash case, Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar has assured that the victims will get justice and the accused will be punished. He said that the minor accused was "in his senses" at the time of the Pune car crash and that they are preparing a watertight case against the accused, reported ANI.
Addressing the press on Friday regarding the Pune car crash, Kumar stated, "We are investigating both the case minutely and with full sensitivity. We are making a watertight case. The allegations of any preferential treatment given to the Minor are being investigated by an ACP rank officer...The victim will get justice and the accused will be punished."
Per the ANI report, declaring that the victim will obtain justice and the accused of the Pune car crash will face punishment, he said, "We have started the process of appointing a special counsel in the case so that our side should be kept strongly in the case in court. Police are on the stringent way to handle this case."
Pune Police Commissioner Kumar acknowledged attempts to falsely blame the driver following the Pune car crash and verified the availability of CCTV footage showing the accused drinking alcohol before the incident, the report added.
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"Effort was made to frame the driver during that period...We are investigating this also...It is true that at the start the driver had said that he was driving the car...We are investigating this part also under whose pressure the driver made that statement we are investigating it," CP Kumar said about the Pune car crash and added, "The youngster accused was in his right mind. He was aware of the repercussions of their acts."
The commissioner also said that the officers of the rank of ACP are conducting a probe into the claims of preferential treatment and promised to take action against any police misconduct, the report added.
"We have the CCTV footage of him drinking liquor in the pub... The point of saying this is that our case is not alone depending on the blood report, we have other evidence also. He (the minor accused) was in his senses. It was not as if all of them were so drunk that they could not understand anything. They had full knowledge that due to their conduct, an incident like section 304 could happen. There is no fact about the pizza party at the police station...," he added.
"On the allegations of preferential treatment given to the accused as of now, nothing has been found in the investigation...If we receive any information that the eyewitness had to face any trouble, action will be taken against those police personnel as well...We have not received the blood report yet. The blood report was taken at the very first and sent to forensics...We have requested the forensics to take a DNA sample of both the samples...," CP Kumar said.
On Thursday, the Pune City Police questioned the accused's grandfather in connection with the hit-and-run event in which the youngster collided his Porsche into two IT workers riding a bike, killing them, the ANI report stated. The victims, Ashwini Koshta and Aneesh Awadhia, both young IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh, died on the spot on May 19.
