The arrested men were on Tuesday produced before a local court which sent them to police custody till August 26. The high-end car driven by the minor allegedly under the influence of alcohol knocked down two motorbike-borne IT professionals, one of them a woman, in the wee hours of May 19, killing both of them. The boy’s father is a prominent builder.

The boy’s parents and two doctors —Dr Ajay Taware, then-HOD (forensic medicine), Dr Shrihari Halnor-and one Atul Ghatkamble, a staffer at government-run Sassoon Hospital—have already been arrested for allegedly swapping the blood samples of the teen driver with those of his mother when he was taken for a medical examination after the crash.

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Two other accused-Ashpak Makandar and Amar Gaikwad-acted as middlemen between the father and the doctors to facilitate financial transactions to swap the blood samples. They were also arrested earlier. The police recently filed a 900-page chargesheet in the case against seven accused arrested earlier.

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