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Juvenile board members Questioned over Bail terms in Pune Porsche case

More details regarding this will be presented in a report next week, according to Prashant Narnawre, the Commissioner of the Women and Child Development Department.

Mumbai: Activists have called for two of the members of the Juvenile Justice Board to be dismissed due to a bail condition that the Maharashtra government recommended for the 17-year-old boy from Pune, who stabbed two people to death while driving his father’s ₹ 2. 5 crore Porsche.

A five-member committee of the ‘Additional Director, Women and Child Development Department’ in this state, including the DC, will investigate the roles of Dr. LN Danwade, who released the teen on bail within 15 hours of occurrence; as additional conditions, the teen was to write an essay of at least 300 words on road safety and furnish bonds of ₹ 15,000.

These terms were later altered after several people got upset over the incident and the cops said that they would have taken the boy to court as an adult, and he was taken to a remand home until June 5.

There is a state Juvenile Justice Board in its existing format and membership, comprising three people, two of whom are appointed by the Maharashtra government, one of whom is required to be a woman, and one representative from the judiciary.

cThe committee will verify whether the provisions of the law that applied in the case of granting bale were adhered to or not.

There is more hope since a report will be tabled next week, according to Prashant Narnawre, the Women and Child Development Commissioner.

The Pune Porsche crash case has since taken many intriguing twists and turns after the boy, who was just four months away from the legal driving age and nearly eight years below the legal drinking age, rammed on to the bike they were riding with such severe force that he killed both Aneesh Awadhiya and 24-year-old Ashwini Koshta, IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh, at 2.15 a.m. on May 19.

The boy, as claimed by eyewitnesses, was

“high on liquor”

when the video footage that shows him freely pouring alcohol for himself and his friends before they all took to the dance floor to celebrate the Class 12 examination result was captured by the camera installed in a city bar.

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