After the outcry over the quick bail to the 17-year-old boy who was allegedly involved in a car accident in Pune that claimed two lives, the Juvenile Justice Board (JJB) has remanded the minor to the observation home till June 5. The boy was shifted to an observation home following the JJB order on Wednesday.
“The Child-in-Conflict with Law (CCL) was sent to the Nehru Udyog Kendra observation home, located at Yerawada, where he is staying with the other CCLs,” the official from the facility said.
As per officials, there are more than 30 minors currently lodged at the observation home with him. During his stay there, he will undergo psychological assessments.
According to advocate Prashant Patil, who represented the teenager at the JJB hearing, the juvenile will be kept at the rehabilitation home during the remand with specific parameters set for this period.
The process of deciding whether a juvenile should be treated as an adult accused can take at least two months as reports of psychiatrists and counsellors among others are called for, and then the JJB gives its decision, Patil said.
“The board has given directions regarding providing a psychologist, psychiatrist, or a counsellor for the CCL to support his mental health and help reintegrate him into the mainstream,” he said.
A Look At Minor’s Remand Home Routine
As per sources, the minor, like other minors lodged at the facility, will begin his day around 8 am. He will be served breakfast till 10 am which often consists of poha, upma, eggs and milk.
Following this, he would offer prayers with others will 11 am, after which his lessons on languages will begin.
Later, lunch will be served, following which the inmates are allowed to rest in their dormitories till 4 pm, they said.
At 4 pm, evening snacks will be served to the CCL. He would be allowed to watch television for one hour till 5 pm, after which he would get 2 hours of playtime till 7 pm.
At 7 pm, a simple dinner of vegetables, chapati and rice would be served to the inmates and at 8 pm, they would be sent back to dormitories for the night.
The Pune Porsche Crash Case Latest Updates
The Porsche car, allegedly driven by the teenager, who the police claim was drunk at the time, fatally knocked down two motorbike-borne software engineers at Kalyani Nagar in Maharashtra’s Pune city in the early hours of Sunday.
The teenager, son of real estate developer Vishal Agarwal (50), was subsequently produced before the JJB which granted him bail hours later.
Police later approached the JJB again, seeking a review of its order. Following an outcry over bail, the JJB on Wednesday remanded the boy to the observation home till June 5.
While the police said the JJB on Wednesday evening cancelled the bail granted to the minor three days ago, his lawyer claimed there was no cancellation of bail.
There was no order yet on the police’s application seeking permission to treat him as an adult accused.
“As per the operative order issued by the JJ Board, it has sent the minor to the observation home till June 5. The order on our plea to allow police to treat him as an adult (accused) has not been received yet,” Police Commissioner Amitesh Kumar said on Wednesday.
Advocate Patil said the bail granted on Sunday has not been cancelled.
“It is a modification of the earlier order….Cancellation of bail means setting aside the earlier order and taking the person in custody. Here, it is not custody. It is a rehab home,” he told reporters on Wednesday.
The JJB had in its Sunday order also asked the teenager to write a 300-word essay on road accidents, an order that drew an onslaught of criticism.
The police have registered an FIR against the minor under IPC sections 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 304 A (causing death by negligence), 279 (rash driving) and relevant sections of the Motor Vehicles Act.
A sessions court earlier on Wednesday remanded the boy’s father, and two employees of Hotel Blak Club, Nitesh Shevani and Jayesh Gavkar, in police custody till May 24.
A case was registered against his father under sections 75 and 77 of the Juvenile Justice Act, and against the owner and employees of two bars which the boy had visited before Sunday’s accident for “serving alcohol to an underage person”.
Section 75 deals with “willful neglect of a child, or exposing a child to mental or physical illnesses,” while section 77 deals with supplying a child with intoxicating liquor or drugs.
According to the FIR, the real estate developer gave his son the car despite knowing that the boy did not have a driving license, thus endangering his life, and allowed him to party even while knowing that he drinks alcohol.
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