In a major crackdown in Pune Porsche accident case, the Maharashtra government is set to suspend all three accused who allegedly tried to change the blood sample of the 17-year-old accused, sources told News18 on Wednesday.
Action against Dr Ajay Taware, head of the state-run Sassoon hospital’s forensic medicine department, chief medical officer Dr Shrihari Halnor and staff member Atul Ghatkamble will be taken after enquiry committee’s preliminary report, which sources said will be submitted by afternoon.
Of the three, Dr Taware is a class one employee. His clearance will have to come from chief minister Eknath Shinde, sources added. Dr Halnor and Ghatkamble will, however, be suspended with immediate effect after the preliminary report.
Taware, Halnor and Ghatkamble were arrested for allegedly throwing away the minor’s blood samples, taken after the accident on May 19, and replacing them with the samples of another person’s blood which had no traces of alcohol.
A three-member committee conducting inquiry had visited the Sassoon General Hospital in Pune on Tuesday. “We will examine the sequence of events after the accident. The probe will be conducted as per the rules, and a report will be submitted to the government,” Dr Pallavi Sapale, dean of the Grant Medical College and J J group of hospitals, had said.
Sources said the committee members visited the casualty department and also understood the process of blood sample collection, its preservation and dispatch to the forensic science laboratory.
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 here. The blood report is a key piece of evidence as police claim the teenager had visited two pubs prior to the incident.
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