Juvenile Justice Board to Decide Teen Driver's Fate, Hearing Will Begin Shortly

Pune Porsche Accident News Updates: The juvenile justice board, around 12:30 pm, will hear the application of Pune police to try the 17-year-old accused as an adult. The JJB has served a notice to the accused to be present during hearing.

A Porsche car allegedly driven by the teenager, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers in Kalyani Nagar in Pune city in the early hours of Sunday.

Meanwhile, the father of the 17-year-old, Vishal Agarwal, a real estate developer, will also be produced before a court today. The police had registered a case against the teenager’s father under sections 75 and 77 of the Juvenile Justice Act and relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC). Section 75 deals with “willful neglect of a child, or exposing a child to mental or physical illnesses,” while section 77 deals with supplying a child with intoxicating liquor or drugs.

According to the FIR lodged in connection with the incident, the man, despite knowing his son did not have a valid driving license, gave him the car, thus endangering the latter’s life. He also allowed his on to party despite knowing he consumes liquor.

The deceased were identified as Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both 24-year-old IT professionals hailing from Madhya Pradesh and working in Pune.