PUNE, July 10 -- The prosecution in the Pune Porsche crash case on Tuesday alleged that attempts to tamper with the blood samples of the minor accused were made not only at Sassoon General Hospital but also at the district hospital in Aundh. The allegation was made before the Pune Court on Tuesday through documents submitted under Section 173(8) of the Criminal Procedure Code, which permits further investigation even after a charge sheet has been filed. The incident occurred on May 19, 2024, when a Porsche, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old, fatally knocked down two IT professionals, Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, in Kalyani Nagar. Following the crash, the minor's blood samples were initially collected at Sassoon Hospital, but investigations later revealed they had been swapped with those of his mother in an alleged attempt to conceal his intoxication. The police then took a second set of samples at Aundh Government Hospital as a precautionary measure after suspecting tampering attempts. The prosecution claimed that after the accused, particularly the juvenile's parents, and associates came to know of the second collection, they attempted to influence the staff at Aundh hospital to swap the new samples as well. However, doctors at the facility refused to cooperate with them and turned them away. To support their claim, the prosecution submitted statements of the medical staff at Aundh hospital to the court. "In the same manner in which they tampered with blood samples at Sassoon Hospital, the parents of the juvenile and a middleman, Ashpak Makandar, tried to do the same at the Aundh hospital. But doctors refused to entertain them," said a crime branch officer involved in the investigation. According to the prosecution, the accused allegedly bribed Dr Shrihari Halnor, then chief medical officer of Sassoon's Emergency department and Dr Ajay Taware, former head of the Forensic Medicine department, to swap the blood samples....