No adult trial for Pune Porsche teen

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There won’t be an adult trial for Vedant Aggarwal the accused in the Pune Porsche case — a decision that has left an entire nation questioning justice.

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00:00A drunk minor boy from an influential family crashes his Porsche into a bike and kills two

00:04young IT professionals. A cover-up attempt links to the underworld and swapping of blood samples.

00:10This was the 2024 Pune Porsche case. Not just another hit and run, but one that made national

00:15headlines because of power, privilege and a cover-up gone too far. And one year later,

00:20on 15 June 2025, the Juvenile Justice Board rejected the plea filed by the Pune police

00:25to try the accused Vedanta Agarwal as an adult. The board ruled that the child in conflict

00:29with the law will be tried under juvenile provisions as per existing norms, despite the Pune police's

00:34insistence that the crime was heinous and the accused just four months short of adulthood.

00:40The incident occurred on May 19, 2024 in Pune's Kalyani Nagar. Two young IT professionals,

00:45Anish Awadhyaya and Ashwini Kosta, were riding a motorcycle when they were hit and killed

00:50instantly by a speeding Porsche, allegedly driven by drunk 17-year-old Vedanta Agarwal.

00:55What seemed like a tragic accident soon spiraled into a high-profile scandal.

01:00The teen's father, real estate developer Vishal Agarwal, found himself at the centre of an alleged

01:05cover-up involving blood sample swaps, influence peddling and links to the underworld.

01:10Despite the seriousness of the offence, Vedanta was granted bail within hours of the crash.

01:14His condition? A 300-word essay on road safety. The backlash was swift and nationwide.

01:20Public anger forced authorities to send him to an observation home, but even that didn't last.

01:24On June 25, 2024, the Bombay High Court ordered his release, calling the juvenile board's

01:29remand order illegal and emphasising that juvenile laws must be fully implemented.

01:34The case has since drawn in doctors, police officers and politicians, all of whom are under

01:39scrutiny for allegedly helping to tamper with evidence. His mother, Shivani Agarwal, was even

01:44arrested for replacing his blood sample with hers and is currently out on interim bail granted

01:49by the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the families of the two victims continue to demand justice as

01:53the trial proceeds under juvenile law.

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