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On Wednesday, while arguing against the police demand to send the father of the minor accused in the Porsche crash case to seven days of police custody, the lawyer made a submission in the special court that, in the end, worked against his client who was remanded to three-day police custody.
Trying to defend his client against the police accusation that the car did not have a registration yet the accused allowed the minor son to drive it for months, Advocate Prashant Patil submitted before the court that the registration did not happen as the electric car model – Porsche Taycan – has some malfunctioning issues and a case regarding this filed by another owner is pending in the Delhi consumer forum.
The minor’s father is facing charges under Section 75 of the Juvenile Justice Act as well as Section 199 of Motor Vehicles Act for handing over the keys of the Porsche car to his 17-year-old son who didn’t have a licence nor the training to drive a car.
Soon after the submission was made by Patil, additional public prosecutor Vidya Vibhute used the submission to argue that this information aggravates the crime of the minor’s father as this means that despite knowing that the car had some malfunctioning, the father allowed the 17-year-old untrained driver to drive the expensive car.
Judge S P Ponkshe too took note of the submission and used the submission as an aggravating circumstance against the accused father while sending him to police custody for three days.
Police Inspector Ganesh Mane submitted before the court on Wednesday that they have spoken to the driver employed by the family who has told the police that the father had ordered him to hand over the driving wheel to the minor son if he asks to drive.
