The mother of a 17-year-old boy involved in the Pune
Porsche crash, in which two persons lost their lives, walked out of jail on
Saturday, four days after the Supreme Court granted her interim bail.
She is the first among the 10 accused arrested in
the alleged blood sample-swapping case to be released on bail.
The others in custody include the teenager's father,
Sassoon Hospital doctors Ajay Taware and Shrihari Halnor, hospital staffer Atul
Ghatkamble, two middlemen, and three others.
A Porsche allegedly driven by a 17-year-old boy in
an inebriated state fatally knocked down two IT professionals on a two-wheeler
in Pune's Kalyani Nagar in the early hours of May 19 last year.
The boy's mother is accused of swapping her blood
sample with that of her son to conceal his inebriation at the time of the
accident.
While granting the mother interim bail, the Supreme
Court had directed a Pune court to set the bail conditions. Accordingly, the
district and sessions court heard arguments from both sides on Friday.
Special public prosecutor Shishir Hiray represented
the state, while advocates Angad Gill and Dhvani Shah appeared for the woman.
Advocate Hiray said, "We sought conditions such
as barring her from staying in Pune district, a passport seizure, mandatory police
station attendance, and keeping her mobile location on at all times." Additional
sessions judge Amol Shinde, however, rejected the prosecution's plea to
restrict her from staying in Pune but accepted other conditions.
The defence lawyers opposed the condition of her
staying out of Pune, citing her husband's custody and the need for her presence
in the city to assist in the legal proceedings. They also objected to the
proposed Rs 5 lakh surety and daily police station visits.
"We argued that since the chargesheet has been
filed and no recovery is pending from her, such strict conditions are
unwarranted," the defence counsel said.
The court accepted the arguments and imposed
standard bail conditions, including a personal bond of Rs 1 lakh, submission of
her passport to the investigating officer, mandatory mobile tower location
sharing, and a ban on leaving India without court permission.
The court has also barred the woman from disclosing
her identity for three months and asked her to report to the police station
every Wednesday.