Click to play videoNew Delhi: On Jan 10, 1999, Sanjeev Nanda, son of arms dealer Suresh Nanda and grandson of former navy chief S.M. Nanda, mowed down six people under his BMW. More than nine years later, he was on Friday sentenced for five years crime by a Delhi court.
Why do speed an alcohol make such a heady combination? Take a look at some of the most high profile cases of drunken driving.
January 1999: Sanjeev Nanda runs over and kills five people in Delhi while driving a BMW after a drinking spree.
September 2002: A drunken Salman Khan drives his Land Cruiser onto a pavement killing a bakery worker in Mumbai.
February 2006: Neel Chatterjee, the vice president of Standard Chartered bank fatally knocks down a 60 year old while drinking and driving.
November 2006: Alistair Perreira drives over and kills seven laborers in a drunken state.
April 2008: Kashif Abbas son of an Uttar Pradesh MLA mows down three people and injures nine others in a case of drunken driving in Lucknow.
Almost 40% of road accidents in India are a result of Drunken Driving. While Delhi has issued over 2,000 challans in the last four months alone, 10,000 Bangalore residents have been caught intoxicated behind the wheel. Hyderabad, Chennai and Mumbai have recorded about 5000 cases each.
The punishment for drunken driving is a meager 950 rupees, which is sufficient to get an offender out on bail even if he has fatally knocked down or crippled someone. The parliament standing committee on traffic recently proposed making drunken driving a criminal offence but this amendment will act as a deterrent only when it is incorporated in the motor vehicle act.
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