A friend of the teen driver has admitted that the latter was driving the Porsche at the time of the horrific accident on May 19 in Pune that killed two IT professionals, adding that the 17-year-old minor was also intoxicated, police sources said.
The sources told India Today TV that the statement of the accused minor's friend was recorded at the Pune Crime Branch office after being questioned for some six hours.
The friend claimed that the teen was drunk before he got behind the wheels of the Porsche and crashed it later.
In their first statements, other friends of the minor had said that it was the family driver who was driving the Porsche and not the teen.
The development came just days after Pune Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar said an attempt was made to show that the minor was not behind the wheel at the time of the crash, but it was the family driver, Gangaram.
"There was an attempt to show that the accused was not driving the vehicle and someone else was driving, but they (family) couldn't do that," he said.
In his first statement to the police, Gangaram had also claimed that he was driving the Porsche and not the teen.
The minor's grandfather, who was arrested over the weekend, has been accused of threatening Gangaram and forcing him to give statements to the police that he was driving the Porsche.
The teenager, who is currently at a Children Observation Centre for 14 days, had consumed alcohol at one bar, and then moved on to another before the deadly car crash in the early hours of May 19.
Two IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh - Aneesh Awadhiya and his friend Ashwini Koshta - died after their motorbike was hit by the Porsche.
While Ashwini died on the spot, Aneesh was shifted to a city hospital, where he died soon after.
