Mahabaleshwar hill station municipal corporation on Saturday sealed the resort belonging to Agarwal family, days after their drunk 17-year-old son knocked down two motorbike riders in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar.
The teenager’s family, including builder-father Vishal Agarwal, grandfather Surendra Kumar Agarwal and mother Shivani Agarwal, have since then been embroiled in multiple controversies as they tried to cover-up the case amid national outrage.
While the 17-year-old minor has been sent to an observation home till June 5, his father and grandfather have been arrested for allegedly kidnapping the family’s driver and putting pressure on him to take the blame.
A court on Friday remanded the minor’s father and grandfather in judicial custody for 14 days after their police custody ended.
Police have also arrested Dr Ajay Taware, then head of the department of forensic medicine at Sassoon General Hospital, medical officer Dr Shrihari Halnor and employee Atul Ghatkamble for allegedly manipulating the minor’s blood samples to show that he was not drunk at the time of the accident.
As per the police, about a dozen calls were exchanged between Vishal Agarwal and Dr Ajay Taware, one of the arrested doctors, while samples were being collected for testing for alcohol consumption.
“The police found that Dr Ajay Taware was on leave on the night of the Pune accident and he got a call from someone. He accepted Rs 3 lakh, called Dr Halnor to manipulate the blood samples,” Maharashtra minister Hasan Mushrif had said on Friday.
Police on Friday moved an application for Vishal Agarwal’s custody in connection with the alleged switching of the blood samples.
Meanwhile, the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) has allowed police to investigate the minor allegedly involved in the Porsche crash. Under the Juvenile Justice Act, the inquiry of a minor has to be conducted in the parents’ presence.
