Tejas Navale

Pune: Vishal Agarwal, the father of the minor accused in the Porsche accident that took place in the Kalyaninagar area of Pune on May 19, was granted bail by the court in one of three cases registered against him. However, he has to spend some more time in jail, as he has yet to get relief in two cases registered against him. Therefore, for now, Vishal Agarwal will stay in judicial custody. Meanwhile, the Bombay High Court ordered Vedant Agarwal's release on June 25 on the petition filed by Vishal Agrwal's sister.

After the Porsche car accident took place, Pune police detained the minor accused along with his father Vishal Agarwal, his grandfather Surendra Agarwal, and his mother Shivani Agarwal in connection with the tampering of evidence. Vishal Agarwal was implicated for destroying the evidence and threatening the car driver to take the blame for the accident on himself. Therefore, a case was registered against Vishal Agarwal at the Yerawada jail, and he was arrested by Pune Crime Branch police from Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar following the incident.

After that, various cases of fraud, extortion, and blood tampering of his son with the help of doctors at Sassoon Hospital came to light, in which Vishal Agarwal was named as one of the prime accused. Therefore, though he gets some relief with bail in one of his cases, he has to spend some more days in Yerawada jail before his relief.

Meanwhile, Puja Jain, the sister of Vishal Agarwal, filed a petition against the custody of the minor accused after he got his bail in the Bombay High Court. On behalf of the petitioner, advocate Aabad Ponda argued that it is illegal to take custody of the child after he gets bail. "Taking the custody of the minor accused by refusing the bail given to him by the magistrate court is a serious offence on behalf of Pune police and is an infringement of the fundamental rights of the minor," argued the petitioner's advocate.

On this, the bench questioned the approach of the Pune Police in the manner in which the minor was put in an observation home following a public outcry after he got bail. On this, the Bombay High Court noted that the accused is under trauma because of this and must be released on June 25.