Shivani Agarwal, the mother of the 17-year-old accused in the Pune Porsche accident case, has been arrested. Her arrest follows the discovery that the teenager’s blood sample, intended for an alcohol test at Sassoon Hospital, was swapped with that of a woman. This substitution raised suspicions that the sample might belong to his mother, who subsequently went incommunicado.
Sources indicate that Shivani Agarwal has been apprehended for evidence tampering and was present at the hospital when the blood samples were collected. She is scheduled for interrogation around 11:30 am.
Earlier, the Pune crime branch had recorded Shivani’s statement at the Agarwal residence. Sources revealed that some nurses from Sassoon Hospital were also summoned and questioned regarding the blood sample swap.
Sassoon Hospital doctors submitted their report to the probe panel on May 29. The Maharashtra Medical Education (MME) department had formed a committee, led by Dr. Pallavi Sapale, dean of Mumbai-based Grants Medical College, on May 27. This followed police claims that the teenager’s blood samples were discarded and replaced with another person’s samples, which showed no traces of alcohol, at Pune’s Sassoon General Hospital.
In connection with the incident, police have also arrested Dr. Ajay Taware, head of the hospital’s forensic medicine department, chief medical officer Dr. Shrihari Halnor, and staff member Atul Ghatkamble.
