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Maha Vikas Aghadi launches sharp attack at Mahayuti, alleging that powers that be are shielding teen accused

The Porsche car accident in Pune on May 19, in which two young engineers were mowed down by a drunk minor son of a local builder; has become a major political issue in Maharashtra.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said if a truck driver was involved in a fatal accident he would have been immediately arrested. However in the Pune case, the accused was treated with kid gloves by the police because his father was a builder, he said. The Congress leader alleged that the well-heeled were supported by the BJP-led Mahayuti government in Maharashtra.

Stung by this criticism, Deputy Chief Minister and senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis, who is in charge of the home portfolio, asked Gandhi not to politicise the accident.

The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) slammed the government in general and Fadnavis in particular for allegedly helping the minor boy by invoking softer sections of law.

Opposition leader in the state assembly and senior Conleader Vijay gress Wadettiwar targeted the Pune police for allegedly introducing gaping holes in the investigation with a view to help the minor boy, who spent Rs48,000 in a pub in Kalyani Nagar of Pune, before getting behind the wheel of the Porsche.

Wadettiwar also demanded a probe by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to unearth all the ramifications of the accident. He wondered why an SIT had been constituted for the Ghatkopar billboard tragedy and not in the Porsche case. Wadettiwar alleged that proper sections of

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