Overview
- Inspector Rahul Jagdale and Assistant Police Inspector Vishwanath Todkari of Yerawada police station were removed from service for dereliction of duty and late reporting, the police commissioner confirmed.
- A March 2025 proposal to terminate the officers was acted upon after findings on failures in the initial response to the case.
- An internal inquiry cited lapses in case registration and delays in collecting the minor’s blood samples, which police say were taken at 11 am hours after the crash, with allegations the samples were replaced with his mother’s.
- Nine other accused remain in jail on charges linked to blood-sample tampering, including the teen’s father, Sassoon Hospital doctors Ajay Tawre and Shreehari Halnor, staffer Atul Ghatkamble, two middlemen, and three named individuals — Aditya Avinash Sood, Ashish Mittal and Arun Kumar Singh.
- The May 19, 2024 crash in Kalyani Nagar killed two tech workers; the juvenile has been released from an observation home and his mother is out on bail.