Pune News: The lawyer representing the teenager involved in the Pune Porsche car crash case revealed on Thursday that the 17-year-old was unable to secure admission to a management institute in Delhi due to a requirement for a No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB).

The defence had initially submitted a request to the JJB for the NOC but later withdrew the application. Special Public Prosecutor Shishir Hiray noted that the defence mentioning the teenager’s difficulties in gaining admission because of the ongoing legal proceedings. “Education is a right guaranteed by the Constitution and he must get admission,” Hiray stated.

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The teenager, who is accused of driving the Porsche that collided with two motorbike-borne IT professionals in May, had applied for a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) course at a Delhi-based institution. Although he initially received admission, the institute later rescinded it, insisting on the NOC from the JJB, which is overseeing his case.

Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ganesh Ingale, the investigating officer, confirmed that the defence sought guidance from the JJB regarding the admission issue but ultimately decided to pursue admission at a college in Pune instead.

In a development, Pune police filed additional charges against the teenager on September 26, alleging that he destroyed evidence, committed forgery and violated the Prevention of Corruption Act. This supplementary report was submitted to the JJB nearly three months after the initial report, which had already charged him with “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” under Section 304 of the Indian Penal Code.

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The incident occurred in the early hours of May 19 when the teenager, reportedly under the influence of alcohol, drove his luxury car into two IT professionals on a motorbike in Kalyani Nagar, resulting in their deaths.

In June, police presented their final report to the JJB, outlining evidence against the minor. By July, a chargesheet had been filed in a Pune court, implicating seven individuals connected to the case, including the boy's parents, who were accused of tampering with evidence by swapping the teenager's blood sample with his mother's after the incident.