The teen accused in the Pune Porsche accident case must be released from detention immediately, the Bombay High Court ruled today. The 17-year-old boy's late-night dash in a Porsche on May 19 left two 24-year-old engineers dead and sparked nationwide outrage.
"We are bound by law, the aims and objectives of the Juvenile Justice Act and must treat him as any child in conflict with law separately from adult, despite the seriousness of the crime," said the bench of Justice Bharati Dangre and Justice Manjusha Deshpande.