Pune Porsche Case: Two Years of Injustice and Celebration

Pune, May 27: Two years have passed since the tragic deaths of Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta on a dark stretch of road in Kalyani Nagar. Both 24, they worked at Johnson Controls as data analysts and had come to Pune from Madhya Pradesh, chasing better opportunities. On the night of May 19, 2024, they were riding home when a Porsche Taycan, doing over 200 kilometers per hour, hit their motorcycle. They did not survive.

Today, on the second anniversary of that fateful night, a video is making the rounds on social media. It reportedly shows members of the Agarwal family celebrating. The reason, as far as anyone can tell, is that they have navigated the legal system and are now free. Every significant accused in this case, including the driver, his father, his grandfather, his mother, the doctors, and others, are currently out on bail. Not one conviction. Not one sentence. Everyone is back home.

The internet has reacted with a mix of fury, grief, and a sense of confirmation of the systemic issues it already suspected. The night itself was marked by a series of shocking events. Vedant Agarwal, then 17 years old, got behind the wheel of his father’s unregistered Porsche Taycan. He had spent the earlier part of the evening at Cosie Restaurant and Bar in Koregaon Park, celebrating his CBSE Class XII results with friends. The group drank until midnight, when the restaurant cut them off. Vedant paid Rs 48,000 for the drinks using his grandfather’s credit card. They then moved to another venue and, sometime after 2 in the morning, he drove.

The car was unregistered. He was a minor. He was drunk. Two people died. None of these facts have ever been seriously disputed. What was disputed, and fought with considerable resources, was everything that came after. Within hours of the crash, Vishal Agarwal, Vedant’s father and a prominent Pune real estate developer, had already brought Maharashtra MLA Sunil Tingre to the police station. Police subsequently delayed the blood alcohol content test, giving the accused preferential treatment. The Juvenile Justice Board granted bail the same day, with the condition that Vedant write a 300-word essay on road safety. For killing two people while drunk driving at 17.

The public outrage forced a reversal. The bail was cancelled, and Vedant was sent to an observation home. But the family was not done. Pune’s Commissioner of Police later confirmed that the Agarwals had allegedly approached their family driver, Gangaram Pujari, and offered him cash to take the blame for the crash. When he refused, they confined him at their home for two days. This man was a witness, and they held him in their house to try and break him.

That was not the worst of it. The investigation also uncovered an attempt to swap blood samples. Vishal Agarwal was accused of orchestrating a conspiracy to replace the blood samples of the car’s occupants so that they would test negative for alcohol. A doctor’s assistant was bribed to help manipulate the forensic records to make it happen.

Two doctors were arrested. Three sets of parents connected to minor co-passengers were arrested. The grandfather was arrested. The mother was arrested. The father was arrested. At one point, eleven people were facing charges across multiple laws covering criminal conspiracy, evidence tampering, witness intimidation, and violations of the Juvenile Justice Act. Eleven people. Today, all of them are free.

The courts resisted for a while. In December 2025, the Bombay High Court rejected bail pleas for the Agarwal family members and the medical staff involved in the blood sample tampering. It felt, briefly, like a line was being held. Then the Supreme Court began moving. In February 2026, three of the accused tied to the blood sample swap were granted bail. Days later, one of the arrested doctors followed.

Then, on March 10, 2026, the Supreme Court granted bail to Vishal Agarwal himself. A bench of Justice B.V. Nagarathna and Justice Ujjal Bhuyan noted that he had already spent nearly 22 months in custody, and that several other accused in related cases had also been released. The court directed that he must not contact or influence witnesses. With that, the last major figure in the case walked out.

Worth noting: the same bench that released Vishal Agarwal also said something rather pointed. Justice Nagarathna observed that it was deeply saddening how irresponsible parents hand luxury high-speed vehicles to minors and give them unrestricted access to money. Strong words, delivered on the same day the court sent that very parent home.

To be fair about what we know and what we do not: the specific video circulating on social media has not been independently verified by this publication at the time of writing. What it shows, what it claims, and who exactly is in it remains unconfirmed from primary sources. What is verified, and has been documented by multiple outlets, is that the Agarwal family has never appeared particularly troubled by public scrutiny. Back in May 2024, a person identifying himself as a relative confronted journalists outside the Commissioner of Police office in Pune. He allegedly told reporters, “You can’t do anything, we have a lot of money,” before physically pushing a camera out of the way.