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A Juvenile Justice Board will decide whether or not the teenager involved in mowing down two people with his luxury race car earlier this week should be tried as an adult, the lawyer representing the accused said.
The accused, a 17-year-old boy, was arrested on May 19 after he crashed his Porsche into a motorcycle, killing two IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh.
The lawyer, Prashant Patil, said that the Juvenile Justice Act has procedures to determine whether the accused Child in Conflict with Law (CCL) be considered a minor or an adult.
He said that the investigation into the crash is ongoing and that the accused does not need to remain in rehabilitation during this time.
The Juvenile Justice Board has set parameters regarding rehabilitating CCL within the 15-day remand period.
The board has also directed that the accused be kept in a rehabilitation home for 14 days, until June 5.
The Pune Commissioner of Police, Amitesh Kumar, said that they had filed in a review application before the Juvenile Justice Board to allow the juvenile to be treated as an adult in the case and also to send him in the remand home.
The police have also sought the custody of the staff of the bar where the accused teenager and his friend were served liquor.
The Pune Excise Department has sealed the bars which allegedly served liquor to the minor before the accident, officials reported.
The managers of the bars were also arrested by the police.