In this video, we delve into the controversial legal proceedings following a tragic car accident in Pune involving Vedant Agarwal, a juvenile. We examine the implications of juvenile justice, societal responses, and the impact of familial influence on legal outcomes. Join us as we explore these complex issues, offering a detailed analysis and opening the floor for a broader discussion on road safety and legal accountability in contemporary society. Discover how public outrage and media attention are pivotal in shaping the legal process. We also question the effectiveness of the juvenile justice system in dealing with high-profile cases that stir national debate.
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00:00Namaskar friends, it's the night of 18th May.
00:02A 24-year-old man Anish and a 24-year-old woman Ashwini
00:06go to a club in Pune to party with their friends.
00:09Although they were from Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh,
00:12but they were working in an IT company in Pune.
00:16The club they go to is called Ballar.
00:18And 3 km away from this place,
00:20on the same night, Vedant and his 12 friends meet in a pub called Kosi.
00:25It was 10.40 pm when Vedant and his friends entered this pub.
00:29And in just 1.5 hours,
00:31they spent so much money that the bill for food and water
00:34reached Rs. 48,000.
00:35The CCTV recording of this time is available for the public.
00:38In which you can see Vedant and his friends drinking.
00:41It's worth noting that Vedant is under 18 years of age.
00:44Way below the minimum drinking age limit.
00:47Around midnight, this pub stops serving Vedant and his friends.
00:52So these people leave this pub.
00:54A few kilometers away, they go to a club called Black in Marriott Suites.
00:59This place was also 3 km away from the club
01:01where Anish and Ashwini were partying with their friends.
01:05Around 2 pm, Vedant and his 2 friends leave this club.
01:10And in the intoxication of alcohol, they sit in their electric Porsche Taycan.
01:14The drivers of their house are also present in this car.
01:17Around 2.30 pm, Anish and Ashwini were returning home.
01:21Sitting on a motorcycle together.
01:23Their motorcycle takes a U-turn on Kalyaninagar Airport Road.
01:27And from the other side, Vedant's Porsche comes like a pistol bullet.
01:35A terrible accident happens and in a few moments,
01:37Anish and Ashwini die.
01:39According to some reports, the speed of this car was 160 kmph.
01:44So some reports say that it was running faster than 200 kmph.
01:49In the CCTV footage, you can see the size of this road.
01:52It's such a small road.
01:53After this collision, the airbags of this car open up
01:56and the people standing nearby reach this collision spot.
02:00After a few push-ups and questions,
02:02Vedant is handed over to the police by the people standing there.
02:06Thinking that in the crime of killing 2 people,
02:09this driver will be given the strictest punishment.
02:12But all these people were unaware of the strange things that were going to happen in this case.
02:17Vedant Agarwal is taken to Yerwada Police Station.
02:25And just an hour after this incident,
02:27MLA Sunil Tingde reaches the police station at 3 in the night.
02:32Think about it, friends.
02:33An MLA is waking up at 3 in the night and going to the police station for a boy.
02:38Will any MLA do this for an ordinary boy?
02:42No.
02:43Actually, Vedant Agarwal is the son of a very rich family.
02:47His father is a well-known builder, Vishal Agarwal,
02:50who owns the real estate company, Brahma Corp.
02:53Sunil Tingde is an MLA of Ajit Pawar's NCP,
02:56who is in an alliance with the BJP today.
02:59Tingde later tells News Laundry in an interview
03:01that he didn't reach there and influence this case in any way.
03:05He reached there that night because he has known this family for the past 30 years.
03:10And he considers the people of this family as his friends.
03:12That's why he went to help them because he was called.
03:16Actually, this call was made by Vedant Agarwal's father, Vishal Agarwal.
03:20The next afternoon, another interesting incident takes place at Yerwada Police Station.
03:24A Mercedes car comes.
03:26Some other cars come with it.
03:28And a man comes out of that Mercedes car.
03:30He has 6-7 pizza cartons in his hand.
03:33Some reporters outside the police station reported that
03:37a complete feast was being held inside.
03:39Pizza was being served.
03:41It's around 6 in the morning when Sunil Tingde comes out of the station.
03:46And a few hours later, at 8.26 am,
03:49on 19th May, an FIR is filed against Vedant.
03:53The section on which this FIR is filed is a controversy in itself.
03:58It is filed under Section 304A, not Section 304.
04:03There are some basic differences between the two sections.
04:05Section 304A is Death by Negligence.
04:08That is, someone died because of your mistake.
04:11This section has a maximum punishment of 2 years in jail.
04:14But on the other hand, Section 304 states
04:17Culpable Homicide Not Amounting to Murder.
04:20Culpable Homicide means that you knew that
04:23if you made a mistake, someone could die.
04:26And yet you made this mistake.
04:28Although it's not murder.
04:30That's why Culpable Homicide Not Amounting to Murder.
04:33Because murder has a direct intention of killing someone.
04:36Here, it's not that.
04:37That's why the maximum punishment for Section 304 is 10 years in jail.
04:41This is the biggest difference between Section 304A and Section 304.
04:45Your knowledge about your mistake.
04:47Do you know that someone could die because of your mistake?
04:50Or do you not know that someone could die because of your mistake?
04:54Now you tell me, friends.
04:56Is there anyone who doesn't know that
04:59driving a car while drunk can cause an accident and someone can die?
05:03Is there anyone who doesn't know that
05:06driving a car at a speed of 200 kmph on the small roads of an internal city can cause someone to die?
05:12That's why the question arises,
05:14why was Section 304A filed?
05:16And why wasn't Section 304 filed?
05:18Was there any influence of MLA Sunil Tingde in this recommendation?
05:22This is a very big question.
05:24Now if we talk about the car, there's a separate issue.
05:26The permanent registration of this Porsche Taycan was pending since March.
05:31Mr. Agarwal hadn't paid the fees of Rs.1758.
05:35That's why during the accident, this car didn't even have a license plate.
05:39We learn from Vedant's grandfather that this car was a gift for Vedant.
05:44When we come back to the FIR, a blood test of Vedant is done by the police.
05:48And the thing to note here is that
05:50at what time is this blood test done?
05:53At 11 in the morning.
05:54After about 8 hours of that incident.
05:57Now depending upon how much alcohol you've been drinking,
05:59alcohol remains in your bloodstream for 6-12 hours.
06:03Here, since the blood test was done after 8 hours,
06:06you might expect a positive blood test.
06:09But no.
06:10This blood test was negative and the reason behind it is that
06:13another fraud was committed here.
06:15The hospital in which this blood test was done,
06:17the doctor in which this blood test was done,
06:19he threw the real blood sample in the garbage bin
06:22and replaced it with another blood sample.
06:25That means this test was done on a sample which was already clean.
06:29The Agarwal family had given Rs. 3 lakhs to two doctors for this blood test.
06:34You can see this article on NDTV's website.
06:36According to its sources, Rs. 3 lakhs of bribe was given to the doctors
06:40so that they can change the blood samples.
06:42Their names are Dr. Ajay Tiwari and Dr. Shri Hari Halnur.
06:45Both of them have been arrested by the police.
06:48The effort to investigate doesn't end here.
06:50Look at this article from Pune Pulse.
06:52Vedant Agarwal's mother requested her driver
06:55to take the blame for this crash on her head.
06:58Vedant's grandfather went one step ahead.
07:00He threatened the driver saying that
07:02you will have to admit that you were driving the car that night.
07:05But thankfully, so many witnesses were present that night
07:08that no such stunt or attempt could be made.
07:11But the most shocking thing comes after this
07:14when the Juvenile Justice Board bails Vedant.
07:17While bailing, it is said that Vedant
07:20will have to study all the rules and regulations
07:23and prepare a presentation.
07:25Along with that, he wrote an essay of 300 words
07:28on the topic of road accident and dissolution.
07:30Here, he drove the car and killed two people
07:33and as a punishment, he is being asked to write an essay of 300 words.
07:37This was so shocking that when this news came to the public
07:40there was a ruckus all over the country.
07:42People started outraging on social media.
07:56A son of a rich family drinks and drives a Porsche car
07:59and kills two people.
08:01He is being asked to write an essay.
08:09Has justice become a joke now?
08:11And for the rich people,
08:13is our life's worth less than a cockroach?
08:16The public's anger put pressure on the police
08:18and for this very reason, the police
08:20moved the Sessions Court on 20th May.
08:22They tried to make Vedant look like an adult
08:26and to modify Section 304A to 304.
08:30The Sessions Court said in return
08:32that the police should approach the Juvenile Justice Board for this.
08:35Along with that, the police decided to book more people in this case.
08:38So, the owner of Cozy Pub, his father,
08:41the manager, he is being booked
08:43and along with that, the managers of the Black Restaurant.
08:45When three of these people were taken to the court for remand application,
08:50they give a very strange statement.
08:52They say, what will people do on the streets?
08:54People who come to big pubs,
08:56they can't walk home,
08:58they will drive home.
09:00So, the liquor seller should know
09:02how much alcohol he is serving his customers
09:04and a limit should be decided for that.
09:06Did you understand this logic, friends?
09:08That people who come to pubs will only drink and drive.
09:11You pub owners should pay attention
09:13to how much you are making people drink.
09:15In my opinion, this is a very strange statement
09:17because it seems like this was a way
09:19to remove the blame from Vedant and his family
09:21and put the blame on the pub owners.
09:23The mistake of the pub owners here is that
09:25they served alcohol to an underage boy.
09:28And for this, a fake ID card was shown by Vedant
09:31or they served alcohol without an ID card.
09:34This will tell us after the investigation
09:36that how much is their fault.
09:38Apart from these people, because there was pressure on the police,
09:40the police also file an FIR on Vedant's father, Vishal Agarwal.
09:44Section 75 is filed which is
09:46Willful Neglect of a Child or
09:48Exposing a Child to Mental or Physical Illness
09:50or Section 77.
09:52Supplying a Child with Intoxicating Liquor or Drugs.
09:55Apart from this, Section 3, Section 5
09:57and Section 199A is also filed
09:59of the Motor Vehicles Act.
10:01Vedant was allowed to drive a car without a license.
10:04On 20th May, there is another twist in the story
10:06when the news comes that Vishal Agarwal has run away.
10:09As soon as the son is given a bail,
10:11he tries to run away.
10:13A new SIM card is bought in this attempt
10:15so that the police can't track his number.
10:18But fortunately, this doesn't last long
10:20because the next day, on 21st May,
10:22he is arrested in Aurangabad.
10:24By this time, the outrage against this case
10:26had reached its peak.
10:28There was a lot of anger among the people.
10:29And the biggest politicians were raising this issue.
10:32The next day, on 22nd May, Vedant is produced in the juvenile court
10:35and another Section 185 is filed
10:38for driving under the influence of alcohol.
10:40The police then requests the court
10:42to treat Vedant as an adult,
10:44not as a minor.
10:46Now, it remains to be seen whether the court
10:48agrees to the police's request or not.
10:50Until then, Vedant has been remanded
10:52in the Nehru Udyog Kendra Observation Home
10:55in Yerwada, till June 5th.
10:58Here, we talk about an interesting
11:00legal technicality, friends,
11:02which makes it difficult to punish Vedant.
11:05We all know that when a criminal's age
11:07is less than 18 years,
11:09the punishment given to him
11:11becomes negligible.
11:12In the Nirbhaya case, there was a huge ruckus
11:14about this issue 10 years ago.
11:16Because a boy who had committed that crime
11:18was less than 18 years old.
11:20Under the pressure of the public,
11:21the government brought an amendment to this law in 2015.
11:23The Juvenile Justice Care and Protection of Children Act, 2015.
11:27According to this, in the age bracket of 16 to 18 years,
11:30if a person commits a heinous crime,
11:33then it is the decision of the Juvenile Justice Board
11:35that if they want, they can take him into trial
11:37not as a minor, but as an adult.
11:39Heinous crime means a very heinous crime.
11:42This is a crime where the minimum sentence
11:44is at least 7 years.
11:46For example, murdering someone.
11:48But in this specific case,
11:49in Vedant's case, the problem is that
11:51even section 304 of IPC
11:54does not give a minimum sentence for jail.
11:56The maximum sentence is 10 years,
11:58but there is no minimum sentence.
12:00That's why even in this IPC section,
12:02it is not included in the category of heinous crime.
12:05And coincidentally, Vedant's age
12:07is only 4 months younger than 18 years.
12:10In legal language, there is a concept of
12:12Dolly in Capex,
12:13i.e. the age of criminal responsibility.
12:16It is believed that children below a certain age
12:19can not intentionally commit a crime of their choice.
12:22That's why the punishment for children
12:24should not be the same as for adults.
12:27Most of the countries in the world
12:29use this philosophy in their legal system.
12:31However, how old they are,
12:33depends on the country to country.
12:35Some countries say that this age should be 6 years.
12:38Some countries say that it should be 9 years.
12:40Some say 12 years, some say 15 years.
12:42This is why when children commit a crime
12:44below a certain age,
12:45they are not given a punishment
12:47but they are given a means to reform themselves.
12:51Research proves that
12:53when children grow up in a bad environment,
12:55when parenting is not done properly,
12:57then the tendency of children committing crimes is high.
13:01But here, through counselling and proper education,
13:04these children also get a chance to reform.
13:07But what about boys like Vedant?
13:09A boy who grew up in a rich family,
13:11who got everything he wanted.
13:13Proper education, a whole family,
13:15all the privileges,
13:17even a Porsche car was gifted at the age of 17.
13:20That's why I believe that Vedant should not be kept as a minor,
13:23but should be kept on trial like an adult.
13:25But because of this one legal technicality,
13:27criminals like Vedant have already escaped.
13:30Look at this case of 2016.
13:324 days before his 18th birthday,
13:34a 3-time repeat offender, Juvenile,
13:36drives a car over a 32-year-old man in Delhi.
13:39First, the family's driver comes forward
13:41and says that he was driving the car.
13:43But later, he takes his statement back
13:45when he finds out that the victim died in it.
13:48In June 2016, the Juvenile Justice Board says
13:51that this boy should be kept on trial like an adult.
13:54And this was very logical
13:55because he was only 4 days younger than the age of 18.
13:58And he was also a repeat offender.
14:00He committed this crime again and again.
14:02But in 2020, the Supreme Court denies this
14:05by saying that Section 304
14:07is technically not a heinous crime.
14:10That's why he should be tried like a minor.
14:12Just a few days before this incident in Pune,
14:15another incident like this is heard in Kanpur.
14:18A 15-year-old boy kills two people
14:20in a motor accident in October 2023.
14:23Despite being charged with Section 304,
14:25he gets bail easily.
14:26This year, in the month of March,
14:28he once again commits a hit-and-run accident
14:30and kills four more people.
14:32Once again, Section 279338 is imposed on him.
14:35But he gets out of it very easily.
14:38Finally, he is arrested on 22nd May
14:41when the news of the Pune case was spreading on social media.
14:44And people were getting angry.
14:46I believe that if the law treats such people
14:48like a minor again and again,
14:50then all the responsibility should be put on the parents of these criminals.
14:54The parents who allow their children to drive
14:57at the age of less than 18 without a driving license.
14:59The parents whose children do such things
15:01because of their poor parenting.
15:03And the parents whose intentional mistakes
15:06cause people to go to jail.
15:08If you can't punish these 15-year-old criminals,
15:11then at least punish their parents.
15:13Because they were the adults
15:15who allowed their children to do all this.
15:17This Pune case, friends,
15:18exposes the entire system of our country.
15:20It exposes how this entire system is sold from top to bottom.
15:24Everything is fair for rich people.
15:26If you have money, you can do anything.
15:29You can drive a car without a license plate.
15:31You can drink alcohol when you are underage.
15:33You can drive the car at the speed of 200 after drinking alcohol.
15:36When you commit a crime, the MLAs will come to help you.
15:39When you bribe them, the doctors will change the blood samples.
15:42The court will ask you to write an essay in return for your crime.
15:45And everything will be forgiven.
15:47On the other hand, there are middle-class, common people and poor people.
15:50Even if a common man follows all the rules of the country,
15:53pays taxes on time,
15:54and is an ideal citizen,
15:56one day or another, he will face a bulldozer at home.
15:59I'm showing you the paper of the shop.
16:01No officer is coming forward to see it.
16:03If it's not legal, then leave it.
16:05No one is ready to see the paper.
16:06The Supreme Court has stopped the adomination.
16:08So why are you still leaving it?
16:10You're not even listening to the Supreme Court.
16:11Without any reason, the police will beat him up.
16:14One day, if he falls under a hoarding, he will suffocate and die.
16:17One day, if he gets cancer due to bad medicines and adulterated food,
16:21then one day, while walking on the road,
16:24a son of a rich man will come and crush him under his car.
16:28This is the life of a common man in our country, friends.
16:31There is only one thing,
16:32only one thing,
16:33which can reduce the distance between justice and injustice.
16:36Which can erase the difference between the rich and the poor.
16:39Something that cannot be bought with money.
16:43This is our unity.
16:45The voice of the people.
16:46In this case, a strict action is being taken against Vedanta.
16:50Doctors have been arrested,
16:51who tried to change the blood sample.
16:54If there is hope of justice in this case,
16:56then it is only because people raised their voices on social media.
17:00This system is not able to save this son of a rich father
17:03who left bloodstains on the road,
17:05just because of our collective voice.
17:08There is a lesson for all of us here.
17:10We should always raise our voice against injustice.
17:13If there is a way to fight this bad system,
17:15then this is it.
17:16As Dr. B. R. Ambedkar had said,
17:19Educate, Agitate, Organize.
17:21Spread awareness among people.
17:23Raise your voice.
17:24And show the power of your unity.
17:26Thank you very much.