Pune Porsche Crash Case: As Accused Teen’s Mother Shivani Agarwal Walks Out Of Jail, Check Who All Are Still Behind Bars

Shivani Agarwal, the mother of the teen involved in the Pune Porsche crash, walked out of jail on Saturday. This came four days after the Supreme Court granted her interim bail. She was accused of swapping her blood sample with that of her son to conceal his inebriation at the time of the accident, which took place in the early hours of May 19 last year, killing two IT professionals who were on a two-wheeler in the Kalyani Nagar area.

While granting Agarwal interim bail, the apex court had directed the Pune court to set the bail conditions. Accordingly, the district and sessions court heard arguments from both sides on Friday. Special Public Prosecutor Shishir Hiray represented the state, while advocates Angad Gill and Dhvani Shah appeared for the woman.

Advocate Hiray said, "We sought conditions such as barring her from staying in Pune district, a passport seizure, mandatory police station attendance, and keeping her mobile location on at all times." However, Additional Sessions Judge Amol Shinde rejected the prosecution's plea to restrict her from staying in Pune but accepted the other conditions.

The bail conditions include submission of her passport to the investigating officer, mandatory mobile tower location sharing, a ban on leaving India without court permission, and reporting to the police station every Wednesday, among others.

Agarwal is the first among the 10 accused arrested in the Porsche case to be released on bail.

Who are still behind bars?

A total of nine accused are still behind bars, including the minor's father, Vishal Agarwal; two doctors from Sassoon General Hospital, Ajay Tawre and Shreehari Halnor; Sassoon Hospital staffer Atul Ghatkamble; two middlemen, Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad, accused of facilitating financial transactions in the blood swapping case; and three others – Aditya Avinash Sood, Ashish Mittal and Arun Kumar Singh. Sood and Singh are the fathers of the other two minors who were with the juvenile driver in the car when the accident took place and whose blood samples were also swapped. Mittal is Singh’s friend, whose blood sample was swapped with that of Singh’s minor son.

The juvenile involved in the crash was released from an observation home in Yerawada in June last year. The Bombay High Court had observed that the remand orders were passed in an “absolutely illegal and mechanical manner” and without jurisdiction. The HC said the minor shall be under the supervision of his paternal aunt, who shall ensure compliance with the directions issued by the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) to rehabilitate him.