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Verdict reserved in BMW case

Staff Reporter

Judgment will be pronounced on September 2

Sanjeev Nanda, the prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run case.

NEW DELHI: A court here on Tuesday reserved its verdict in the nine-year-old BMW accident case for next week.

Hearing final arguments by the prosecution as well as the defence, Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar said he would pronounce the judgment on September 2.

“The final arguments in the case have concluded. Now the case would come up for pronouncement of judgment on September 2. The defence counsel may furnish any additional case law in support of their case by August 29,” said Mr. Kumar minutes after Public Prosecutor Rajeev Mohan wrapped up his additional arguments.

Counsel for prime accused Sanjeev Nanda and other accused concluded the final arguments in the case on August 20 with the claim that the prosecution had failed to establish the charges against them.

Thirty-year-old Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former Navy Chief Admiral S.M. Nanda, and Manik Kapoor are on trial under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code including Section 304 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) for running over six persons at Lodhi Colony here in the early hours of January 10, 1999. Besides the two, businessman Rajeev Gupta and his two employees -- Bhola Nath and Shyam Singh -- are also accused under Section 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly cleaning the bumpers and bonnet of the car of the blood and vestiges of the victims at Golf Links minutes after the accident.

Sanjeev Nanda was returning home along with his friend when he allegedly drove his BMW car through a police checkpoint mowing down six persons, including three policemen. Sanjeev Nanda spent a few months in jail following the accident, but was released on bail in May 1999.

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