New Delhi, 07 January (H.S.): The Supreme Court issued a notice to the Maharashtra government on Wednesday, directing it to respond to bail applications filed by two individuals implicated in the infamous Pune Porsche car crash that claimed two young lives on May 19, 2024.

Aditya Avinash Sood, aged 52, and Ashish Satish Mittal, 37, secured arrests on August 19, 2025, after investigations revealed their blood samples had been substituted for those of two minors accompanying the primary 17-year-old accused, Vedant Agarwal, in a bid to falsify alcohol tests.

The Porsche Taycan, allegedly piloted by the inebriated teenager at speeds exceeding 200 kilometers per hour through Pune's Kalyani Nagar junction around 2:30 a.m., catastrophically collided with a motorcycle bearing IT engineers Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both 24 and hailing from Madhya Pradesh.

The victims perished almost instantly—Awadhiya after slamming into a parked vehicle, Koshta hurled airborne—sparking nationwide outrage over juvenile leniency, alleged police complicity, and procedural lapses with the unregistered luxury import.

Sood and Mittal, ensnared in the blood sample manipulation scandal alongside Agarwal's father, now seek judicial reprieve as the apex court scrutinizes the state's handling of this protracted saga, which has ensnared real estate magnates, medical functionaries, and law enforcers in a web of accountability.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Jun Sarkar