New Delhi:A Delhi court Friday sentenced Sanjeev Nanda to five years in prison for mowing down six people under his BMW in January 1999.

Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar had Wednesday found Nanda, grandson of former Navy chief S.M. Nanda and son of arms dealer Suresh Nanda, guilty under Section 304 (2) of the Indian Penal Code for culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The maximum punishment is 10 years.

Businessman Rajiv Gupta, found guilty of destroying evidence, was given one year imprisonment and a Rs.10,000 fine. His two domestic helps Bhola Nath and Shyam Singh, also held guilty for destroying evidence, were sentenced for six months and fined Rs.100 each. All three were given bail soon after the ruling on a surety of Rs.10,000 each.

Nanda was returning in an inebriated state from a party in Gurgaon with his friends Manik Kapoor and Siddharth Gupta in the early hours of Jan 10, 1999 when he ran over six people in south Delhi's Lodhi Colony.

His nine months in jail will be counted as time served.

 

Source : IANS