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Dr Taware denies involvement in blood swapping
Hindustan Times Pune
|July 03, 2025
The Porsche crash case took a new turn on Wednesday after advocate Sudhir Shah told the court that Dr Ajay Taware, who has been accused of swapping blood samples, was not present at the hospital when the 17-year-old was brought in for medical examination following the accident.
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Shah argued that the charges related to forgery, criminal conspiracy, and destruction of evidence under the Indian Penal Code (IPC), hence, do not apply to his client.
Dr Taware, former head of the Forensic Medicine department at Sassoon General Hospital, has been accused of tampering with blood samples to shield the juvenile involved in the fatal May 19 crash.
The minor, allegedly intoxicated at the time, had driven a Porsche into two young IT professionals - Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta - hailing from Madhya Pradesh, killing them instantly in the Kalyani Nagar area.
This story is from the July 03, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Pune.
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