Pune Porsche Crash: Court Rejects Temporary Bail Plea Of Teen Driver’s Father | India News
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Vishal Agarwal, father of the juvenile driver involved in the May 2024 Porsche crash, had sought bail citing the medical condition of his 79-year-old mother
Builder Vishal Agarwal is brought at Pune Police Commissioner’s office after his arrest in Pune. (PTI file photo)
A Pune court on Wednesday rejected the temporary bail application of Vishal Agarwal, father of the juvenile driver involved in the May 2024 Porsche crash. He had sought bail citing the medical condition of his 79-year-old mother.
Additional Sessions Judge K P Kshirsagar ruled that, considering the nature of the offence and the “reasonable apprehension of tampering with the witnesses”, there was no ground to grant bail at this stage.
Agarwal, a builder by profession, told the court that his mother was suffering from a serious medical condition and required spine surgery. He claimed his presence was needed before and after the procedure.
However, the prosecution opposed the plea. Special Public Prosecutor Shishir Hiray argued that the surgery was planned and not urgent. He said the medical condition was age-related and not life-threatening.
“Lumbar spine surgery of the mother of applicant/accused is a planned surgery. His father, sister, wife, son, brother-in-law can take care of his mother,” Hiray said. He also pointed out that the medical documents were dated 7 July 2025, and the bail application was filed the next day. This, he argued, indicated that the documents may have been created specifically to seek bail.
The court agreed with the prosecution, stating that other family members were available to care for Agarwal’s mother and that she was not in a critical condition.
“There appears no substance in the contention of applicant that he being the only son of his mother is required to take care of her and make decision of her surgery and medical procedure,” the court said in its order.
The accused’s son, who was 17 at the time, was allegedly driving a Porsche in an inebriated state when he hit a man and a woman on a motorbike in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar in the early hours of 19 May 2024. Both victims, software professionals, died in the crash.
The juvenile’s parents, along with several others including doctors at a government hospital, were arrested for allegedly attempting to tamper with his blood test samples to show he was not under the influence of alcohol.
The teenager’s mother is currently out on bail. Agarwal remains in jail along with Sassoon Hospital doctors Ajay Taware and Shrihari Halnor, hospital employee Atul Ghatkamble, middlemen Bashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad, and others including Aditya Avinash Sood, Ashish Mittal, and Arun Kumar Singh.
(With inputs from PTI)
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