Sanjeev Nanda, prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run incident, was convicted by a Delhi court on Tuesday. Nanda's car mowed down six persons, including three cops, were in 1999.
Sunil Kulkarni, a Mumbai-based trader and an eyewitness to the incident in which Sanjeev is facing trial along with three others, also said that he had given a different version about a particular point under police pressure.
Sanjeev Nanda, an accused in the BMW hit and run case, who got his passport recently after a 18-month legal battle following an order of the CBI court is cooling his heels in CBI custody in an Income Tax case. The CBI court on Tuesday remanded him to the custody of the premier investigating agency till March 14 for alleged manipulation of evidence in the Income Tax case.
Nanda, undergoing five years jail term in the BMW hit-and-run case, was earlier on December 19, granted three-week interim bail to meet his ailing grandfather and former Naval Chief S M Nanda.
Justice Kailash Gambhir granted three weeks interim bail to Nanda so that he could meet his ailing grandfather, former Naval Chief S M Nanda, who had a distinguished career in the Navy and played a significant role in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.
Sanjeev Nanda on Friday received a five-year jail term in the BMW hit-and-run case. Businessman Rajeev Gupta received a one-year jail term for destruction of evidence, while his two employees got six months jail term each.
Sanjeev Nanda, convicted in the BMW hit-and-run case, on Friday got a reprieve from the Supreme Court which refused to enhance the quantum of punishment of two years already undergone by him and directed him to do community service for two years.
In a new twist to the BMW hit-and-run case trial, a medical expert on Thursday told a Delhi court that a blood test on prime accused Sanjeev Nanda just after the incident had proved that he was under the influence of liquor. "As per traffic rules, a person is under the influence of liquor if the blood contains 30 mg or above per 100 ml of blood, wherever in the present case, it was much above it. As per my report, it was 115 mg/ml," doctor Madhulika Sharma said.
"I permit Sanjeev Nanda to go abroad as the special public prosecutor has no objection to his plea," Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar said and asked him to come back by January five for day-to-day recording of evidence of defence witnesses.
The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the city police on a petition filed by Sanjeev Nanda challenging a lower court's decision to sentence him to five years' imprisonment in the BMW hit-and-run case.
The counsel for Sanjeev Nanda, convicted by a Delhi court in the 1999 BMW hit-and-run case, on Wednesday sought his release on probation, highlighting the good work done by him in Tihar jail by conducting English and computer classes for inmates.At the end of the arguments of sentence, the court put off the pronouncement of sentence till September 5.
Kulkarni also alleged that ACP Ranbeer Singh had beaten him mercilessly at Hauz Khas police station before the recording of his testimony in the court in 1999.
The Delhi High Court will give its verdict on Monday in the BMW hit-and-run case, in which a trial court had convicted and sentenced businessman Sanjeev Nanda to five years imprisonment.Justice Kailash Gambhir, who had reserved the judgment in May, would pass the verdict on the petitions filed by three convicts, including Nanda. Besides Nanda, the court had also convicted Rajiv Gupta and Bhola Nath, and sentenced them to one year and six months in jail, respectively.
Sanjeev Nanda, son of arms dealer Suresh Nanda and prime accused in BMW hit-and-run case, would soon be flying out of the country as a Delhi court has directed the Central Bureau of Investigation to release his passport. The CBI had seized the passports of the father-son duo in a raid at their premises on October 10, 2006. The raid followed registration of a case against Suresh Nanda and others in a defence deal related to the procurement of armoured recovery vehicles.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted three persons sentenced to varying jail terms for tampering with evidence in the infamous 1999 BMW hit-and-run case, involving former Naval chief Admiral S M Nanda's grandson Sanjeev Nanda.
On January 10, 1999, Sanjeev Nanda allegedly ran over six people with his black BMW while driving in an inebriated state.
The fate of Sanjeev Nanda, prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run incident, is likely to be decided on Tuesday by a Delhi court that is set to deliver its verdict in the case in which six persons, including three cops, were killed in 1999. After several twists and turns in the case that spanned almost nine years, Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar had on August 26 reserved his verdict in the case.
The Delhi high court granted bail to arms dealer Suresh Nanda, his son Sanjeev and two others who allegedly manipulated evidence in the case of alleged kickbacks in the Barak missile deal
In a significant development, a Delhi court on Saturday allowed police to take fresh fingerprints of the accused, including Sanjeev Nanda, in the eight-year-old BMW hit-and-run case, the trial of which is at its fag end.
Special CBI Judge I K Kochar dismissed the bail applications saying the probe in the case was at a 'nascent stage' and their release on bail may hamper it adversely. According to the probe agency, Suresh Nanda, accused of receiving kickbacks in the tune of Rs 400 crore in certain defence deals, connived with his son and chartered accountant to influence Verma, the IRS officer who had once raided Nandas' premises to gather evidence on non-filing of IT returns.
Deposing before Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar, Kulkarni said it was a 'healthy and hefty' boy who had come out from the driving seat of the BMW car.
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