1 week Ago By Asseem Shaikh
1 2 Pune: A sessions court in the city on Friday said that imposing bail condition like restraining the teenage driver's mother in a case related to the May 19, 2024, Porsche Taycan car crash from entering Pune district "would not be in the interest of justice" considering she had to take care of her two children and aged in-laws. Additional sessions judge Kishor N Shinde turned down special prosecutor Shishir Hiray's submission seeking such a restraint as one of the bail conditions. The court was hearing the state and the defence lawyers on the issue of setting the bail conditions after the Supreme Court on April 22 ordered the mother's release on an ad interim bail.
You Can Also Check: Pune AQI | Weather in Pune | Bank Holidays in Pune | Public Holidays in Pune The sessions court finalised conditions like furnishing a personal release bond of Rs1 lakh with one or two sureties in the like amount, depositing her passport with the investigating officer, not to leave India without the court's prior permission during the pendency of the case, to always keep her mobile phone tower location on, and not to disclose her identity, in any manner, for the next three months to facilitate the mother's release from Yerawada central prison . The court directed the accused mother to report at Yerawada police station, besides the investigating officer, every Wednesday between 11 am and 1 pm until June 30 and warned against tampering with the prosecution's evidence, besides asking her to furnish proofs to the court of herself and her two nearest relatives with their mobile numbers. Defence lawyers Angad Singh Gill and Dhvani Shah, representing the teenager's mother, told TOI, "We have complied with the bail conditions imposed by the trial court, and our client is set to walk out of Yerawada central prison on Saturday in the wake of the ad interim bail granted to her three days ago by the Supreme Court.
" She is the first among the 10 accused arrested on charges of manipulating the blood tests of the teenage driver and two other teenagers accompanying him in the high-end car at the time of the accident. On April 22, the SC said, "The appellant is the mother of the main accused who was detained for causing the death of two people in an accident. The allegations against the mother are that she attempted to fabricate evidence in order to save the main accused, that is her son.
The appellant is a woman and as such she is entitled to protection under section 437 of the Criminal Procedure Code. The chargesheet has already been filed, and the appellant was incarcerated for a period of more than 10 months. In view of the matter, by way of ad interim order, we are inclined to release the appellant on bail.
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