Overview

• The Juvenile Justice Board on July 15 rejected Pune Police’s plea to try the 17-year-old accused in the May 2024 Porsche crash as an adult, insisting he remain under the Juvenile Justice Act.
• Prosecutors had argued that the teen’s actions—driving under the influence and causing two deaths—met the act’s ‘heinous offence’ threshold for adult trial.
• The crash in Kalyani Nagar killed two 24-year-old software engineers, Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Costa, after the juvenile allegedly drove his father’s car while intoxicated.
• Investigators uncovered an alleged scheme to replace the minor’s blood sample with his mother’s at Sassoon Hospital, leading to the arrests of his parents, two doctors, a hospital staffer and two middlemen.
• The co-accused in the evidence-tampering case remain in custody as juvenile court proceedings resume under guidelines focused on rehabilitation.