The teenager involved in the Pune Porsche crash case, that killed two people, was released from the observation home following the orders of the Bombay High Court.
The division bench of Justices Bharti Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande of the Bombay High Court earlier on Tuesday ordered the immediate release of the juvenile from an observation home noting that the Juvenile Justice Board's remand orders were illegal and passed without jurisdiction.
The teenager, who had got bail hours after the accident on May 19 but was sent to the observation home three days later following an outcry, was released in the evening following the HC order.
The order was passed on a petition filed by the 17-year-old boy's paternal aunt, who claimed he was illegally detained.
Ashwini Koshta and her friend Anish Awadhiya, both IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh, were killed in the early hours of May 19 when the luxury car, allegedly driven by the teen who police suspect was driving drunk, collided with their two-wheeler in Kalyani Nagar area of Pune.
As per the police, the teen was drunk and driving the luxury car belonging to his father, a real estate businessman, when it hit a two-wheeler in Kalyani Nagar area of Pune city in the early hours of May 19, killing a man and a woman, both IT professionals and 24 years old.
The accident took place in the early hours of May 19. The boy was granted bail the same day by the JJB and ordered to be under the care and supervision of his parents and grandfather. It also asked the boy to write a 300-word essay on road safety.
As the quick bail on lenient terms led to public outrage, the police filed an application before the JJB, seeking amendment of the bail order.On May 22, the board ordered the boy to be taken into custody and remanded him to an observation home.