Candle light march held to pay tribute to two techies killed in Pune car accident

Porsche involved in accident where two motorbike-borne engineers lost their lives earlier this month. Pic/PTI

Citizens participated in a candle march organised on Saturday to pay tribute to two IT professionals who were killed in the Pune car accident involving a minor boy in Kalyani Nagar area six days back, reported PTI.

Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, originally from Madhya Pradesh, lost their lives when the speeding car allegedly driven by the drunk teenage son of a builder rammed into their motorbike, triggering a huge outrage.

A silent candlelight protest was also organised demanding to check late-night illegal activities in residential areas, reported PTI.

Police detained the minor boy and arrested his father and grandfather on various charges among other persons in connection with the incident.

Meanwhile, Pune police on Saturday arrested the grandfather of the 17-year-old involved in a car crash here that killed two persons while claiming that both the teenager's father and grandfather put pressure on the family's driver to take blame for accident by offering him money and giving threats, reported PTI.

The teenager's grandfather was arrested for 'illegal confinement' of the driver, and a court subsequently remanded him in police custody till May 28. The minor's father, in judicial custody in another case registered in connection with the May 19 accident, too was named in the First Information Report, reported PTI.

"After the accident, the driver gave a statement at the Yerawada police station that he was at the wheel....But it was revealed that a teen was driving the car,¿" police commissioner Amitesh Kumar told reporters.

After the driver left the Yerawada police station, the teenager's father, realtor Vishal Agarwal and his grandfather whisked him in a car to his house on the premises of their bungalow, confiscated his phone and confined him there, the senior police official said, reported PTI.

"He was pressured to give a statement to police as per their directions," Kumar said, adding that the driver was offered gifts and cash for owning up the crash of the Porsche driven by the teenager, and also threatened, reported PTI.

The driver's wife reached the place the next day and freed him, said the commissioner.

"The driver was frightened. He was summoned and his statement was recorded on Thursday (May 23). After corroboration of facts, an offence was registered against the juvenile's father and grandfather (on the driver's complaint)," Kumar said, reported PTI.

Vishal Agarwal and his father were booked under Indian Penal Code sections 365 (kidnapping) and 368 (wrongfully concealing or keeping in confinement).

(With inputs from PTI)