Eyewitness deposes in BMW hit and run case

New Delhi, May 17 (UNI) Sunil Kulkarni, an eyewitness in the BMW hit and run case in which six persons were killed in 1999, today deposed before additional sessions judge Vinod Kumar.

It is alleged by the prosecution that six persons including three policemen were crushed to death by a BMW allegedly being driven by Sanjeev Nanda, grandson of former navy chief S M Nanda, in an inebriated state on Lodhi road in the early hours of July 10, 1999.

Siddharth Gupta and Manik Kapoor, friends of Sanjeev, were also named in the case along with Bholanath and Shyam Singh Rana.

In his earlier statements before the magistrate, Kulkarni had said he was on his way on the day of the incident when he saw a car hitting some people on Lodhi road. Two persons came out of the car and one of them told the other''Sanjeev, let us go''.

During the trial, the prosecution had dropped Kulkarni as a hostile and unreliable witness, as it is suspected that he had been won over by the accused.

On March 19 additional sessions judge Vinod Kumar using his powers to recall a witness summoned Kulkarni to depose in the case.

Two other witnesses, Manoj Malik and Hari Shankar, the petrol pump attendant who had called up the police control room have already turned hostile in the case. Malik had told the court that it was a truck, not a car, which had killed the people.

Sunil Kulkarni today identified Sanjeev Nanda before the court.

After the deposition of Kulkarni, the court fixed May 29 as the date of his cross examination.

UNI