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Vidyavihar crash: HC seeks reply on plea to cancel bail of minor driver’s father

Vidyavihar crash: HC seeks reply on plea to cancel bail of minor driver’s father

MUMBAI: The Bombay High Court on Monday issued notice on a plea by the widow of Dhrumil Patel, who was killed in the February 5 Vidyavihar crash, seeking cancellation of bail granted to the minor driver’s father, and asked the accused and the State to file responses. Dhrumil Patel was killed and his wife, Minal, was injured in the accident. The petition by Minal Patel challenges the March 4 sessions court order that granted bail to the father of a 17-year-old boy accused of driving the car involved in the fatal accident. The High Court has sought replies from the respondents, initiating proceedings on whether the bail granted to the father warrants interference. The accident took place near Somaiya College in Vidyavihar, where a car allegedly driven by the minor rammed into a scooter carrying Dhrumil Patel, 33, and his wife. Both were seriously injured, and Dhrumil later succumbed to his injuries. An FIR registered at Tilak Nagar police station named both the minor driver and his father, the car owner, as accused. A magistrate …

Pune Porsche car crash: Appointments of two Juvenile Justice Board members terminated for ‘misusing powers’ | Pune News

Pune Porsche car crash: Appointments of two Juvenile Justice Board members terminated for ‘misusing powers’ | Pune News

The Maharashtra government has terminated the services of two members of the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) — Dr. Luxman Nema Danwade and Kavita Tulshiram Thorat — for allegedly “misusing their powers” in the Pune Porsche car crash case. A N Bhondve, Deputy Secretary to Government, issued the notification in this regard on October 8. Two IT engineers Aneesh Awadhiya and his friend Ashwini Koshta, both 24 and from Madhya Pradesh, were killed after a speeding Porsche car driven by a 17-and-a-half-year-old boy in an inebriated state hit their motorcycle at Pune’s Kalyani Nagar junction around 2.30 am on May 19. Same day, a first information report (FIR) was lodged against the minor car driver, at the Yerwada police station. The police detained the minor and produced him before the JJB in Pune in the afternoon. The police had sought his custody in the juvenile observation home and had also appealed that he be tried as an adult. But the JJB — which consisted of just one non-judicial member, Danwade, instead of its full strength of …

Mercedes hit-and-run case: Father arrested, police seek JJB permission to try minor as adult | Ahmedabad News

Two days after a minor was conditionally left off in connection with a hit-and-run accident in Ahmedabad’s Bopal area on Saturday — leading to a 34-year-old security guard’s death — the accused’s father, who was named as the co-accused in the FIR, was arrested on Thursday even as the Ahmedabad Rural Police sought permission from the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) to try the 17-year-and-eight-month old as an adult. The minor, whose father is an Ahmedabad-based builder, was driving a Mercedes and had escaped from the spot after the accident, said police, adding that the car has also been taken in custody. On Thursday, the police presented the minor’s father before a local court which granted him bail, confirmed Bopal Police Inspector BT Gohil. The minor, who was detained on September 17 and presented before the JJB, was conditionally let off till September 23 on the grounds that he had to appear for his BBA examination. Superintendent of Police Om Prakash Jat said, “We have sought permission from the JJB to try the minor as an …