Fast cars, faster bails: Kanpur crash revives familiar memories — Where does the Pune Porsche case stand now

In the latest incident in Kanpur, Shivam Mishra, the son of tobacco baron KK Mishra, got bail within hours of his arrest.

• Kanpur luxury car crash: Shivam Mishra got bail hours after arrest
• Pune Porsche crash revived concerns over lenient bail for wealthy accused
• Bombay High Court released minor accused, father remains in jail

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India has witnessed one too many incidents of accidents involving luxury cars, often with affluent individuals at the wheel, who end up slipping through the cracks of the legal system with surprising ease.

In the latest incident in Kanpur, Shivam Mishra, the son of tobacco baron KK Mishra, got bail within hours of his arrest. The Lamborghini Revuelto, an Italian luxury supercar worth over Rs 10 crore, had rammed into pedestrians and vehicles in Kanpur’s upscale Gwaltoli area around 3 pm on Sunday, leaving six people injured.

What followed raised as many eyebrows as the crash itself. Mishra was detained four days later, picked up outside his Arya Nagar residence on Thursday morning and produced before an Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate court.

Within hours, he was out on a personal bond of Rs 20,000, with the court citing a lack of concrete evidence at that point. To many observers, it looked less like accountability catching up and more like it briefly dropping by.

The case invariably revived the memories of the horrific Pune Porsche crash of 2024, when a juvenile driver rammed his luxury car into two individuals, killing them on the spot.

Pune Porsche crash

In May of 2024, a 17-year-old son of a wealthy Pune builder, Vishal Agarwa,l allegedly spent Rs 69,000 on alcohol with friends after his Class 12 results. Around 2 am, he drove home in an unregistered Porsche with two companions.

At the same time, two IT professionals, Anish and Ashwini, were returning home on a two-wheeler after an evening out in Kalyani Nagar. The Porsche, reportedly speeding close to 200 kmph, crashed into them with such force that both were flung several feet and died on the spot.

Bystanders caught the occupants. Police arrived within minutes. Yet what truly ignited nationwide outrage was what came next. The Juvenile Justice Board granted the minor bail within 15 hours.

The conditions sounded almost surreal: a 300-word essay on road safety, counselling sessions and assisting traffic police. Two lives lost, and the immediate consequence read like a school assignment.

The board further ruled that the offence did not qualify as “heinous”, meaning the minor would not be tried as an adult. The boy’s father was arrested for allegedly allowing him to drive without a licence and for suspected evidence tampering.

Investigations later revealed that blood samples taken from the minor had allegedly been swapped with his mother’s to conceal alcohol consumption, deepening public anger.

As pressure mounted, the minor was eventually remanded to a juvenile detention centre in June.

Several arrests followed, including doctors at Sassoon Hospital and bar staff accused of serving alcohol to the minor. The father was questioned over the blood sample swap, while the teenager’s 77-year-old grandfather was accused of abducting the family driver and forcing him to take the blame.

On June 25, 2024, the Bombay High Court ordered the release of the minor from custody, placing him under his aunt's care, ruling the initial detention illegal.

He remains under juvenile proceedings, not an adult trial.

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court later granted bail to the mother of the minor accused. However, his father continues to stay in jail.

In December 2025, the Bombay High Court rejected the bail plea of eight accused, including the father of the minor accused, arrested in the case.

In February 2026, the apex court granted bail to Aditya Sood, Ashish Mittal and Santosh Gaikwad, the three accused of swapping the blood samples.