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| NDTV exposes prosecution-defence .. |
| An NDTV investigation has revealed how the legal system may have been subverted in the high profile BMW case
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| INDIA
, 31-May-2007
10:19:56 AM |
| An NDTV investigation has revealed how the legal system may have been subverted in the high profile BMW case.
In 1999 six people were run over, allegedly by a BMW driven by Sanjeev Nanda, a young, rich industrialist. But eight years later every witness, except one, turned hostile.
NDTV investigates how the prosecution, the defence, and the only witness, who has not turned hostile, Sunil Kulkarni collude.
The story is not only a comment on an isolated, single case but a larger statement on the state of India's legal system.
Two months ago, Kulkarni approached NDTV after watching the channel's expose on the BMW case.
Kulkarni claimed he was under great pressure from both sides- the Defence and the Prosecution, to change his original statement . He offered to prove this on hidden camera. But just before his testimony began, he withdrew his initial consent.
After consulting legal opinion, NDTV broadcast the story in public interest.
There are four main players in the BMW case:
Sanjeev Nanda, son of a rich arms dealer, accused of running over and killing six people in his BMW. The car was later filmed by the police with blood on its wheels. Nanda got bail after 9 months in jail when the only survivor changed his story and said a truck and not a BMW caused the accident.
Sunil Kulkarni, a passerby who allegedly saw the accident and the only witness who has refused to turn hostile but was inexplicably dropped as a witness by the prosecution on grounds that he had been bought by the Nandas. This despite the fact that he is the only witness who still says the accident was caused by a black car with two men in it, one of them called Sanjeev.
R K Anand, the Defence lawyer for Sanjeev Nanda, one of the senior most lawyers in India and a former Rajya Sabha MP.
Public Prosecutor I U Khan who is meant to prove the killing.
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