Pune Porsche Crash: What Was The Bribe Paid To Swap Teen's Blood Sample? Cops Suspect More Than Rs 3 Lakh

In a fresh development in the Pune Porsche accident case, sources have told News18 that the police are looking at monetary trail apart from the amount that was given as bribe to the hospital. Police sources have said that the amount could be much higher than Rs 3 lakh that was exchanged at hand.

The police have gotten access to CCTV footages, which show hospital staff receiving bribe to swap the accused teen’s blood sample.

A police probe had revealed that Dr Ajay Taware, accused of allegedly swapping the blood samples of the minor accused in the drunk driving case, had an extensive network of brokers across Maharashtra’s western region who brought to him cases which needed to be expedited in return for a bribe. The probe revealed that Dr Ajay Taware’s ‘brokers’ were found in five districts of Maharashtra. These ‘brokers’ would bring ‘cases’ to him from across the state.

Police said that his ‘handlers’ were primarily from western parts of the state. These ‘brokers/handlers’ would reach out to Taware, securing cases for expedited treatment in exchange for a bribe, which he would then pocket.

Dr Ajay Taware is currently in police custody for allegedly swapping the blood samples of the minor accused of crashing a Porsche into a motorbike in Pune’s Kalyani Nagar and killing two persons.

He is accused of swapping them with the samples of another person’s blood which had no traces of alcohol.

State-run Sassoon hospital’s chief medical officer Dr Shrihari Halnor and staff member Atul Ghatkamble have also been arrested for allegedly aiding Taware, the hospital’s head of the hospital’s forensic medicine department, in disposing of the samples.

Two IT professionals were killed after their motorcycle was hit by a speeding Porsche car allegedly driven by the 17-year-old boy in the early hours of May 19 in Kalyani Nagar area in Pune. The blood report is a key piece of evidence as police claim the teenager had visited two pubs prior to the incident.

Meanwhile, the teenager’s parents Vishal Agrawal and Shivani are also in police custody for alleged destruction of evidence. The police are probing whether the parents tampered with evidence by replacing the original blood sample with the mother’s, potentially destroying the original sample.

They told the court there is a strong possibility the parents of the juvenile destroyed the original blood samples.