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Nanda allowed to go abroad

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: A court here has allowed the prime accused in the eight-year-old BMW hit-and-run case, Sanjeev Nanda, to go abroad. The court also dropped the name of one of two journalists named in the list of defence witnesses submitted by Nanda.

Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar allowed Nanda to go to the United Kingdom and return by January 5 when day-to-day recording of defence witnesses in the case would begin. The court allowed him as the prosecution did not challenge it.

The court, however, asked Nanda’s counsel Ramesh Gupta to submit the blood test reports of his client on December 11, the next date of hearing.

Meanwhile, the court dropped from the list of defence witnesses the name of Sanjay Vohra, a journalist, who while working with a Hindi newspaper had written an article saying that the car involved in the accident was not a BMW.

However, the court allowed the defence to examine the television reporter who had interviewed Gauri Shankar, a Mumbai resident. Shankar had claimed that the eyewitness in the case, Sunil Kulkarni, was not in Delhi on January 10, 1999, when the BMW accident had taken place on Lodhi Road. The court allowed the defence to run the CD of the interview and also question the reporter.

On Friday, Nanda had submitted a list which contained the names of the two journalists. The prosecution had challenged the defence on the inclusions. The first defence witness, Nanda’s grandmother, had told the court that her grandson was innocent.

Nanda, along with two friends, had been accused of mowing down six people under his BMW car in the early hours of January 10.

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