Cops to move court for trial against teen involved in luxury car crash

The Pune Police in Maharashtra on Monday said that they will seek a higher courts permission to try as an adult a teenage boy whose car allegedly knocked down and killed two persons in Kalyani Nagar area in Pune reported the PTIThe accident took place on early Sunday morningThe Juvenile Justice Boards decision to grant the 17yearold youngster bail on the same day while asking him to write an essay on road accidents has drawn criticism as per the PTIThe teenager son of a real estate developer was drunk at the time of the accident police claimed on MondayA case has been registered against him under section 304 culpable homicide not amounting to murder of the Indian Penal Code and sections of the Motor Vehicles ActAccording to PTI a group of friends were returning on motorbikes around 315 am on Sunday after a party when a speeding luxury car hit one of the motorcycles at Kalyani Nagar junction The two riders Anis Awadhiya and Ashwini Costa died of their injuriesThe youngster who was allegedly driving the car was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board which granted him bail It also directed him to visit the Regional Transport Office and study all the rules and regulations and submit a presentation to the Board within 15 days The CCL Child in Conflict with Law will write an essay of 300 words on the topic of road accidents and their solutions the order read the PTI reportedThe board also directed the youth to assist RTO officers for 15 days and submit a report He should be referred to an alcohol deaddiction centre for counselling it saidOn Sunday itself we had moved an application before the court board seeking permission to try the juvenile as an adult and send him to an observation home as the crime is heinous but the plea was rejected We are now approaching the sessions court with the same plea said Pune police commissioner Amitesh Kumar the news agency reported on MondayHis blood report was yet to be received but preliminary probe showed that the juvenile was drunk at the time of the accident he said as per the PTIThe CCTV footage of the bar clearly shows that the juvenile was consuming alcohol There is no doubt that the juvenile was driving the car after consuming alcohol We will be submitting all these facts to the court commissioner Amitesh Kumar saidWe have also registered an offence against his father under the Juvenile Justice Act and against the proprietors of the bar establishment for serving alcohol to an underage person We have transferred the probe of these cases to the crime branch he further saidPolice displayed professionalism while dealing with the case Amitesh Kumar claimed The case was transferred to an ACPlevel officer and it is our endeavour to make a watertight case We will appoint a special counsel in this case he addedwith PTI inputs