Shivani Agarwal, mother of 17-year-old accused in Pune Porsche accident case, has been arrested. The arrest comes days after it was found that the teenager’s blood sample was replaced with that of a woman for an alcohol test at the Sasson hospital. This led to speculation that it could be of his mother, following which she went incommunicado.
Sources said that she has been apprehended for tampering of evidences, and being present at the hospital when blood samples were taken. She will be present for the interrogation around 11:30 am, a source added.
Shivani’s statement in the case was earlier recorded by the Pune crime branch at the Agarwal residence. Sources had earlier told News18 that the Pune crime branch has also summoned some nurses, who are members of the staff at the Sassoon hospital. They were questioned regarding the swapping of the blood samples, sources added.
Sassoon hospital doctors submitted their report to the probe panel on Wednesday (May 29). The Maharashtra medical education (MME) department formed the committee headed by Dr Pallavi Sapale, dean of Mumbai-based Grants Medical College, on May 27 after the police claimed that the teenager’s blood samples were discarded and replaced with another person’s samples, which showed no traces of alcohol, at Pune’s Sassoon General Hospital.
Police have arrested Dr Ajay Taware, head of the state-run hospital’s forensic medicine department, chief medical officer Dr Shrihari Halnor and staff member Atul Ghatkamble in connection with the incident.
Two IT professionals in their 20s were killed after their motorcycle was hit by a speeding Porsche, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old, in the early hours of May 19 in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar area. According to police, the teenager, son of builder Vishal Agarwal, was drunk at the time.
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