SC seeks state's reply on bail plea of minor’s father in Pune Porsche crash

The Supreme Court on Thursday asked the Government of Maharashtra to respond to a bail plea filed by the father of the minor accused in the 2024 Pune Porsche crash case news agency PTI reportedA bench of Justices BV Nagarathna and Ujjal Bhuyan issued a notice to the state government after the minors father challenged an earlier order of the Bombay High Court denying him bail The matter is scheduled to be heard on March 10Pune Porsche accident Highspeed crash 300word essay and a nationwide outrageThe case relates to an accident that took place on May 19 2024 in Pune A 17yearold boy allegedly under the influence of alcohol was driving a Porsche when he fatally hit two IT professionalsThe incident triggered widespread public anger especially after the minor was initially granted bail by the Juvenile Justice Board on what many considered lenient terms One of the conditions required him to write a 300word essay on road safetyFollowing public outrage Pune police approached the board to review its decision The board later modified its order and sent the juvenile to an observation home In June the Bombay High Court ordered his release from the observation homeOn December 16 2025 the Bombay High Court rejected the bail plea of the minors father and the other accused persons in the case The father then moved the Supreme Court challenging that decisionThe apex court has now sought the Maharashtra governmentrsquos response and will hear the matter next monthPune Porsche crashSupreme Court grants bail to three accusedEarlier this month the Supreme Court granted bail to three other accused in the case namely Amar Santish Gaikwad an alleged middleman as well as Aditya Avinash Sood and Ashish Satish MittalThe court noted that they had been in custody for 18 months While granting bail the bench observed that in cases involving juveniles parents should be held responsible if they fail to control their childrenOn January 7 and 23 the court had also sought responses from the Maharashtra government on bail pleas filed by some of the accusedBlood sample swapping allegationsSood and Mittal aged 52 and 37 were arrested on August 19 last year Their blood samples were allegedly used in place of samples belonging to two minors who were in the car at the time of the accidentIn December 2025 the Bombay High Court rejected the bail pleas of eight accused including Gaikwad Sood and MittalApart from the minor 10 people were sent to jail in connection with the alleged blood sampleswapping case These include his parents doctors Ajay Tawre and Shreehari Halnor Sassoon hospital staffer Atul Ghatkamble Sood Mittal and Arun Kumar SinghWith PTI Inputs