PUNE: The Pune police on Monday arrested two doctors of the Pune’s Sassoon General Hospital for alleged manipulation of blood samples and destruction of evidence in the case of a car accident involving a 17-year-old boy.
Those arrested include head of the forensic department of the hospital. The two have been identified as Dr Ajay Taware and Shrihari Harnor.
Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, originally from Madhya Pradesh, lost their lives when the speeding car allegedly driven by the drunk teenage son of a builder rammed into their motorbike, triggering a huge outrage.
Police detained the minor boy and arrested his father and grandfather and others on various charges.
The teenager’s grandfather, Surendra Agarwal, was arrested for `illegal confinement’ of the driver, and a court subsequently remanded him in police custody till May 28. The minor’s father, in judicial custody in another case registered in connection with the May 19 accident, too, was named in the FIR.
Investigation so far has shown that the juvenile, while being drunk, was driving the car, the police commissioner had said earlier.