PUNE: The mother of a 17-year-old boy involved in the Pune Porsche crash, in which two people 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”.
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