Click to play videoNew Delhi: Sanjeev Nanda prime accused in the 1999 BMW hit and run case just got a breather of sorts.
Sunil Kulkarni, a key witness in the case has said during his cross-examination that Nanda was not the person behind the wheels. He was in the same car though, the witness testified in court.
On May 18, Kulkarni had identified Nanda in court. He had said that Nanda was one of the three persons who came out of the car that ran over and killed six people at Lodhi Road in the capital on January 10, 1999.
Kulkarni had also told the court that it was a car that ran over the six people, and not a truck, as several witnesses had claimed earlier.
The Delhi High Court had upheld trial court's order summoning Kulkarni while allowing his cross examination on Tuesday.
Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former Navy Chief S M Nanda, and son of owner of the international arms trading firm Crown Corporation, in an inebriated condition allegedly ran over his BMW into a police checkpoint in the wee hours of January 10, 1999.
After two eye-witnesses Manoj Mallik and Hari Shankar turned hostile in the case, Kulkarni was dropped by the prosecution from being examined. The two petrol pump attendants who had called up the Police Control Room on the fateful day changed their statement on September 30, 1999, saying that it was a truck and not a car that killed the men.
In April 2007, the Delhi High Court had issued notice to the Delhi police to explain why Sunil Kulkarni, the prosecution witness in the 1999 BMW hit and run case should be brought back to Delhi from Mumbai.
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