The father of the 17-year-old Pune teen – who killed two people while “heavily drunk” and driving his dad’s Rs 2.5 crore Porsche electric sports car – faces additional charges of forgery, criminal conspiracy, and destruction of evidence. The father – a city-based real estate mogul arrested trying escape the cops – already faces charges of wilful neglect of his child under the Juvenile Justice Act.

The father is presently in jail till June 7 on charges of cheating; he reportedly failed to pay the Rs 1,758 registration fee for the expensive, high-performance car. He will likely be produced before a district court – by the Crime Branch, which has taken over all related cases – on other charges.

The boy’s grandfather has also been arrested and is now in police custody; he has been accused of “wrongfully confining” a family staffer – the driver of the Porsche that ferried the teen and two of his friends at the start of a drinking binge meant to celebrate passing the Class 12 exams – who was reportedly threatened and bribed, with cash and gifts, to take responsibility for the horrific incident.

The father and the grandfather have also been charged with kidnapping and illegal confinement.

The cops are expected to interrogate both individuals on this charge.

The Pune Porsche crash case has taken murky turns since the teen – four months shy of legal driving age and nearly eight years shy of legal drinking age – boy ran over a bike carrying Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, 24-year-old IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh – at 2.15 am on May 19.

The most recent turn was the arrest of two doctors from the state-run Sassoon Hospital on charges of manipulating the results of the boy’s blood test. Pune Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said samples from the hospital and sent for forensic tests – to potentially establish blood alcohol level – were not from the teen. “This means the samples were replaced,” Mr Kumar told the press.

“Around 11 am on May 19, a blood sample (of the teen) taken at Sassoon Hospital was thrown in a dustbin… the sample of another person was sent to the lab. Chief Medical Officer Srihari Halnor replaced the sample… we found Halnor replaced this on instructions from Ajay Tawade, the head of the hospital’s forensic medicine department…” Pune’s top cop confirmed.