The Nationalist Congress Party (SP) MLA Prajakt Tanpure's wife, Sonali, on Wednesday took to X (formerly Twitter) and recalled the days when her son was studying in the same school as the 17-year-old boy who killed two persons with his speeding Porsche on May 20.
Sonali Tanpure said her son was in the same class as the minor accused. "At that time, my son suffered a lot at the hands of some of his (the builder's son) friends. I had even complained about it to their parents but did not get a proper response," she wrote.
Finally, left with no options, they decided to change the school of their son to avoid his torture at the hands of the other brats. "The scars of those traumatic incidents are still there in his (son's) mind. If the parents had noticed the bad tendencies of their child in time, then such a terrible crime would not have happened," she added and demanded justice for the families of the two victims.
Prajakt Tanpure also took to the microblogging site and said the incident had cut short the lives of the two youngsters who hailed from "a small town and had big dreams."
In all this, Tanpure pointed out how not only the boy and his parents, but the entire system, including the home department, government, and police, are equally responsible for the tragedy.
"The authorities are committing the sin of destabilising the social order by supporting the influential people. It was only because of the alert people present there and the pressure built by the citizens and the media that is leading to some effective action now," he wrote, adding, "Otherwise, the boy and his father would have been easily acquitted by making their driver the accused."
