Teen Booked Under More Sections; Juvenile Justice Board Hears Case

Ahead of the hearing before Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), Pune police added some more sections against 17-year-old accused. Apart from section 185 of the Motor Vehicle Act (driving by a drunken person), sections 184 (action against those who violate traffic rules through rash or dangerous driving), 119 (age limit in connection with driving of motor vehicles) and 177 (general provision for punishment of offences) have been added.

The juvenile justice board is presently hearing 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.