The Pune Police on Saturday arrested Surendra Agarwal, the grandfather of the 17-year-old boy who fatally rammed his sports car into two IT professionals on a bike on May 19.
Surendra Agarwal is accused of threatening the driver, Gangaram, and forcing him to give statements to the police that he was driving the Porsche during the accident that killed Aneesh Awadhiya and his partner Ashwini Koshta.
Surendra Agarwal was arrested at 3 am from his residence in a new case registered by the Pune crime branch. This is the third FIR in the Pune Porsche crash case.
Earlier, the Pune crime branch had questioned Surendra Agarwal to know more about his son and grandson, and the conversations he had with them on the day of the accident to dig deeper into the case. Police said the Porsche was registered in the name of the realty firm of which Agarwal was one of the owners.
Earlier, CBI sources said that Surendra Agarwal was facing trial in a shootout case for allegedly making payments to gangster Chhota Rajan.
Following the accident, the teenager was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB), which granted him bail while asking him to write a 300-word essay.
After an outcry over the quick bail and the police's review plea, the JJB on Wednesday remanded the teen, who is the son of real estate developer Vishal Agarwal, to an observation home till June 5.
Pune Police had demanded that the minor accused should be tried as an adult on the basis of the crime during prosecution.
Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said they had "filed a review application before the Juvenile Justice Board to allow the juvenile to be tried as an adult and also to send him to a remand home".
