Pune Car Accident: Pune s district administration has ordered the indefinite closure of two pubs in Mundhwa for serving alcohol to underage guests, including the 17-year-old driver involved in a fatal accident that killed two people. The decision followed chargesheets filed by the excise department. Inspections are underway to identify other pubs violating regulations, including serving liquor to minors, lack of records maintenance, and unauthorized sale of alcohol.
The Maharashtra excise department has sealed two restaurants in Pune for allegedly serving liquor to a 17-year-old boy involved in a fatal car crash. The juvenile, reportedly drunk, killed two software engineers while driving a Porsche. The enforcement aims to prevent similar incidents.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi has questioned why "preferential treatment" was meted out to a wealthy, 17-year-old drunken boy who killed two persons zooming in his Porsche car, sparking an uproar in public and political circles, here on Tuesday.
A Pune crime branch team detained the father of the teenage driver involved in a fatal Porsche accident. The father, a prominent builder, faces charges for allowing his underage son to drive a high-end car without a license. Two techies were killed in the accident. Police also arrested the owner and staff of a pub where the underage driver had been partying before the incident.
The car, a Porsche, allegedly driven by the 17-year-old, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers at Kalyani Nagar in Pune city in the early hours of Sunday.