Minor accused in Pune car accident sent to observation home till June 5

Pune (Maharashtra) [India], May 22 (ANI): The Juvenile Justice Board on Wednesday remanded the 17-year-old accused in an accident involving a luxury car in Maharashtra's Pune to observation home till June 5.
Pune Commissioner of Police, Amitesh Kumar said that they had filed in a review application before the Juvenile Justice Board to allow the juvenile to be treated as an adult in the case and also to send him in the remand home.
"The operative order was communicated to us by the Juvenile Justice Board and the said juvenile accused has been sent to the remand home for 15 days, till 5th June," the commissioner told ANI.
"The order of him (accused) being treated as an adult in the case is awaited at the moment," he added.
Earlier today, the father of the minor accused was sent to police custody until May 24.
Earlier, the Juvenile Justice Board granted bail to the 17-year-old accused involved in the car accident in Pune. The bail came with several conditions aimed at rehabilitation and awareness.
Two young IT professionals, identified as Ashwini Koshta and Aneesh Awadhia, both from Madhya Pradesh, were killed in the accident that took place in Pune's Kalyani Nagar on Sunday (May 19).
According to officials, the father of the minor accused was not cooperating in the investigation, prompting Pune police to seek him for further questioning in the case. When the police gave him notice to join the investigation before his arrest, he misled them by stating that he was in Shirdi. He was, however, found to be in Aurangabad.
Police also sought the custody of the staff of the bar where the accused teenager and his friend were served liquor. Allegedly, the 17-year-old minor later crashed his luxury car into a motorcycle, killing two persons in Pune. The police, during their investigation, also found that there was no board on the premises of the bar that said alcohol couldn't be served to minors.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Pune Excise Department took decisive action by sealing the Cosie Bar and the Black Bar in Pune. These establishments allegedly served liquor to the minor before the accident, officials reported. The managers of the bars were also arrested by the police.
The incident occurred in the early hours of May 19 when a luxury car, driven by the accused juvenile, collided with a motorcycle near Kalyani Nagar in Pune. The crash resulted in the untimely deaths of two young individuals, identified as Ashwini Koshta and Aneesh Awadhia - both from Madhya Pradesh. The juvenile driver was apprehended but later given bail by the Juvenile Justice Board. (ANI)