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1999 Delhi hit-and-run case

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Within a few hours of the incident, Inspector Jagdish Pandey of the Police Control Room of Delhi Police traced the car by trailing the oil leak to the grade from the spot of the accident. They found the one-month-old car, purchased in his sister Sonali Nanda's name, with foreign number plates, which
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The case went up for re-trial and was tried on a fast-track basis. On 2 September 2008, Nanda was convicted by a Delhi court for killing six people. On 3 August 2012 the Supreme Court reduced his prison sentence to the two years he had already spent in prison, but the court added a large fine, and
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While Nanda and several related parties were initially acquitted and released in a trial in 1999, he was later found guilty in 2008 and sentenced to two years in prison, which was reduced to time served, a large fine, and two years of community service by the Indian Supreme Court in 2012. The case
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Nanda had reportedly been instructed by his parents not to drive that night, but was driving anyway. There was a police checkpoint on Lodhi Road and it appears that the constable may have challenged the car, though it is also possible that the car was going so fast that it was out of control.
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After running through the policemen, he allegedly stopped the car to check the damage, saw people under the car, and according to the prosecution, at this point a co-passenger said: "Let's go," and they quickly drove away. The car was then driven to a house in
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had not been registered in India. Attempts to clean it were still in progress. Nanda and his friends were arrested, but his clothes, and those of the others who helped clean the car, were never found. Nanda and his friends were charged with
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Sanjeev's BMW crashed through all the people at the police checkpoint, immediately killing two constables and two others. Another policeman and another bystander died later in hospital. The seventh victim survived.
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The vehicle's broken registration plate was found on the scene the next morning. Preliminary investigations revealed that the car would have been going at 140 km/h when it hit the victims.
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In the early morning of 10 January 1999, Sanjeev Nanda was returning from a late night party in Gurgaon with some friends.
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was driving the car after returning from a party with Siddhartha Gupta (son of Rajeev Gupta), and Manik Kapoor.
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as "a test of the judicial system's ability to take on the powerful".
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Six people, including three police officers were killed by a speeding
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were caught on camera offering money to a witness in an
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sentenced Nanda to do community service for two years.
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BMW E38
Lodhi Colony
Delhi
India
Indian Navy Chief
Suresh Nanda
India Today
Golf Links, New Delhi
Defence lawyers
NDTV
sting operation
Delhi High Court
culpable homicide
Bollywood
Jolly LLB
Arshad Warsi
Boman Irani
Tollywood
Sapthagiri LLB
Saptagiri
Sai Kumar
Kollywood
Manithan
"Sanjeev Nanda's rough ride to jail in a BMW"
Sify
the original
"Will the real Sanjeev Nanda stand up?"
The Times of India
the original
"Sanjeev Nanda, 3 others convicted in BMW hit-and-run case"

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