While in a similar case connected with the tragic Porsche accident that killed two techies in Pune, the proceedings of the 17-year-old boy, who was held charged in the case, have followed his academic commitments to present a 300-word essay on road safety to the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), said an official today.
The Juvenile Justice Board JJB received the essay on Wednesday from the teenager, freed from an observation home after the Bombay High Court declared his detention unconstitutional, the official said to news agency PTI.
The accident on May 19 at Kalyani Nagar raised public anger regarding the easy bail conditions set for the juvenile culpable. To begin with, the JJB directed the teen to his parent’s custody and provided the essay as one of the bail requirements.
The police blamed the boy for driving the Porsche with the intent of drinking alcohol when he knocked down a two-wheeler with the two software engineer’s fatalities. The event raised so many eyelashes across the country, and everyone demanded justice for the deaths.
As a related occurrence, on July 2, a lower court in Pune released the father and grandfather of the juvenile who was charged with the kidnapping and wrongful confinement of their family’s driver and who forced him to take responsibility for the accident.
As per the police, the teen’s father, Vishal Agarwal, a builder, and his grandfather used threat and lé force to confine the family’s driver to their Greater Noida South bungalow and tried to make him accept that he and not the juvenile had been driving the car when the accident happened.
The accident and the subsequent interference of the influential family resulted in multiple attempts to hush up the case involving the minor boy and cover the wrongdoing; for instance, the blood samples of the minor boy were exchanged at the hospital, where he was first taken for a sobriety check.
Arguably, the Bombay High Court underlines the proper compliance with the laws regarding juvenile justice, and this prompted the release of the 17-year-old boy from the observation home.
