Sanjeev Nanda
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Sanjeev Nanda is a businessman and the son of Suresh Nanda
, an Indian arms dealer, head of the firm Crown Corporation and an ex-naval officer, implicated in a Tehelka
expose. He is also the grandson of an ex-Chief of Naval Staff
-turned businessman, S. M. Nanda
from New Delhi
. Sanjeev has been convicted for running over and killing six people, including three policemen.
The case attracted enormous media attention, and was viewed by many as "a test of the judicial system's ability to take on the powerful". Nanda is also one of the principals in the weapon trading firm Crown Corporation started by his father, Lt. Commander Suresh Nanda
(ex-Indian Navy
). He also owns several hotels.
Sanjeev Nanda, a management graduate from INSEAD
and Wharton
, was allegedly in a drunken state when he drove his BMW
car at high speed through a police checkpoint at 4:50 AM early morning of January 10, 1999. 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 co-passenger Manik Kapoor said: ‘‘Let’s go,’’ and they
quickly drove away. The car was later cleaned up by servants at a friend's house.
In the initial court case, Sanjeev and five others were acquitted after many years because the court did not find any of the witnesses reliable and the defense was able to make the case that it was perhaps a truck and not the BMW that had caused the deaths. All the accused were released, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the legal system, since it was widely believed that the witnesses had been bought off.
Following the media hue and cry, another court in September 2008 sentenced him to five years in jail.
Also, in March 2008, Sanjeev Nanda and his father were also arrested in Mumbai in connection with the Barak Missile Scandal
, in which Crown Corporation allegedly paid large bribes to politicians and defence officials.
He is also a British national.
The incident occurred at 4:50 AM early morning of January 10, 1999. Sanjeev Nanda was returning from a late night party in Gurgaon with friends Manik Kapoor & Siddharth Gupta. Both were in their early twenties and came from influential business families - Manik's father Sudhir Kapoor runs a thriving export business was one of the closest to the Nanda Family.
Sanjeev had apparently been instructed by his parents not to drive that night, but was at the wheel 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. In any event, it is alleged that Sanjeev's BMW crashed through all the people at the police checkpoint, immediately killing two constables - Rajan Kumar (25) (of 86th Battalion of the CRPF), Ram Raj
(38) of Delhi
Home Guard, and two others - Abdul Nasir
(30) and Gulab (32), who were apparently being interrogated. Another policeman, Peru Lal (40) of the Delhi Home Guard, along with
Mehendi Hassan, died later in hospital. The seventh victim, Manoj (32), survived, but is untraceable today.
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
co-passenger Manik Kapoor said: ‘‘Let’s go,’’ and they
quickly drove away.
The car was then driven to Siddharth Gupta's house in Golf Links, where
Siddharth's father Rajiv Gupta, who heads the finance firm Motor General
Finance, instructed watchman Bhola Nath and driver Shyam Singh Rana to clean
the bumpers and bonnet of the car of the blood and vestiges of the victims.
Subsequently the police charged these three with destroying evidence. A few days later, a witness Sunil Kulkarni, came forward to
describe the scene. At the time of the crash, he
was on his way to the railway station.
He deposed as follows on Jan 16, 1999:
the next morning.
A 100-yard stretch near the police checkpoint was strewn with body parts and
severed limbs amid pools of blood.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the car would have been going at
140 km/h when it hit the victims.
Within a few hours of the incident,
Inspector Jagdish Pandey of the Police Control Room of Delhi Police
was able to trace the BMW by trailing the oil leak from the
accident-spot to Rajiv Gupta's garage. They found the one-month
old car, purchased in his sister Sonali Nanda's name,
with foreign number
plates, which had not been registered in India. Attempts
to clean it were still in progress. Sanjeev and his friends were arrested, but
his clothes, and those of the others who helped clean the car, were
never found.
When Sanjeev and his friends were first
charged with Culpable homicide in court, a gaggle of Delhi's
elite descended on Patiala House courts, including
ex-Admiral Nanda himself.
that it might have been a truck that hit them. Since the
other six witnesses were dead, Manoj was the only voice.
It is
widely believed that he had been paid off, and has
mysteriously disappeared thereafter. Another witness,
Sunil Kulkarni had volunteered to have seen the
incident, but the elite defence team was able to
discredit him and he was portrayed as having been
"put up" by the Delhi Police.
In Sanjeev Nanda's testimony (in 92 questions over 14 pages),
he told Judge S.L. Bayana that he was not driving the car and was not the
car's owner. He said it was his sister's car and he had
nothing to do with the accident.
Sanjeev Nanda spent a few months in jail but was released on bail in May
1999. He was set a surety of
a Rs 45 crore (USD 9 million), subsequently reduced
to Rs. 15 crore (USD 3 million).
and on 2 September 2008, Sanjeev Nanda was convicted by a Delhi court for mowing down six persons in the nine-year-old BMW hit-and-run case and can face a ten-year prison term.
The BMW case joins a long list of similar cases.
A few years back, Puru Raj Kumar, the son of Bollywood Actor Raj Kumar, had
run over two pavement dwellers. He had been fined Rs. 35000 (about USD
1000).
2007
2008
2009
2010
A Tehelka
investigation in 2001 revealed possible influence
Lt-Cmdr Suresh Nanda
and Admiral SM Nanda may have had with
the Indian Ministry of Defence in swinging deals.
In these tapes, the reporter is posing as a representative of the fictional
large arms supplier West End.
At one point, the Samata Party
national treasurer RK Jain is trying to
convince Tehelka about his prowess in swinging
deals. He mentions how in the first
defence deal that he was involved in as the party treasurer,
Suresh Nanda of Crown Corporation had paid Samata Party Rs 1 crore to swing
the Rs 250-crore (USD 60 million)
order for Armoured Recovery Vehicles (ARV) in favour of a Slovakian company.
Jain also said that he had received another Rs 1 crore for the Samata Party from Suresh Nanda to help swing the contract for an air-to-air and surface-to-surface missile system for the Indian Navy. Nanda was an agent for the Israeli Barak missile system.
These tapes were the result of a clandestine
sting operation
and are not admissible as evidence
in court. However, the intense media pressure led to a separate investigation
by the Central Bureau of Investigation
and five years later, R.K. Jain was arrested in February 2006.
In October 2006, the Central Bureau of Investigation
filed charges against George Fernandes, former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sushil Kumar
, and others in the Barak missile case, claiming that there was reasonable basis to suspect corruption and criminal conspiracy.
Finally, seven years after the expose, in March 2008, the Nandas were arrested.
Suresh Nanda
Suresh Nanda is an Indian businessman, former Lt. Commander for the Indian navy, arms dealer, investment banker in the UAE and owner of several companies including the firm Crown Corporation, C-1 India, Dynatron Services, and the Claridges hotels in India...
, an Indian arms dealer, head of the firm Crown Corporation and an ex-naval officer, implicated in a Tehelka
Tehelka
Tehelka is an Indian weekly political magazine under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal known for its undercover exposé style of journalism. Its cover price is Rs 20 per issue. The publication began in 2000 as a news website, Tehelka.com...
expose. He is also the grandson of an ex-Chief of Naval Staff
Chief of Naval Staff of the Indian Navy
The Chief of the Naval Staff is the commander and typically the highest-ranking officer in the Indian Navy. The position is abbreviated CNS in Indian Navy cables and communication...
-turned businessman, S. M. Nanda
S. M. Nanda
Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda was an Indian Navy admiral who served as the 8th Chief of the Naval Staff from 1 March 1970 until 28 February 1973...
from New Delhi
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
. Sanjeev has been convicted for running over and killing six people, including three policemen.
The case attracted enormous media attention, and was viewed by many as "a test of the judicial system's ability to take on the powerful". Nanda is also one of the principals in the weapon trading firm Crown Corporation started by his father, Lt. Commander Suresh Nanda
Suresh Nanda
Suresh Nanda is an Indian businessman, former Lt. Commander for the Indian navy, arms dealer, investment banker in the UAE and owner of several companies including the firm Crown Corporation, C-1 India, Dynatron Services, and the Claridges hotels in India...
(ex-Indian Navy
Indian Navy
The Indian Navy is the naval branch of the armed forces of India. The President of India serves as the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. The Chief of Naval Staff , usually a four-star officer in the rank of Admiral, commands the Navy...
). He also owns several hotels.
Sanjeev Nanda, a management graduate from INSEAD
INSEAD
INSEAD is an international graduate business school and research institution. It has campuses in Europe , Asia , and the Middle East , as well as a research center in Israel...
and Wharton
Wharton
-Academic institutions:*Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania*Wharton Center for Performing Arts, at Michigan State University-Places:*Wharton, Cheshire, England*Wharton, Cumbria, England*Wharton, New Jersey*Wharton, Ohio*Wharton, Texas...
, was allegedly in a drunken state when he drove his BMW
BMW
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
car at high speed through a police checkpoint at 4:50 AM early morning of January 10, 1999. 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 co-passenger Manik Kapoor said: ‘‘Let’s go,’’ and they
quickly drove away. The car was later cleaned up by servants at a friend's house.
In the initial court case, Sanjeev and five others were acquitted after many years because the court did not find any of the witnesses reliable and the defense was able to make the case that it was perhaps a truck and not the BMW that had caused the deaths. All the accused were released, resulting in a sharp drop in public confidence in the legal system, since it was widely believed that the witnesses had been bought off.
Following the media hue and cry, another court in September 2008 sentenced him to five years in jail.
Also, in March 2008, Sanjeev Nanda and his father were also arrested in Mumbai in connection with the Barak Missile Scandal
Barak Missile Scandal
The Barak Missile Scandal is a case of alleged defence corruption relating to the purchase of Barak Missile Systems by India from Israel. The case is currently under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation, and several people including the Samata Party ex-treasurer R.K. Jain have been...
, in which Crown Corporation allegedly paid large bribes to politicians and defence officials.
He is also a British national.
The BMW hit-and-run case
The BMW incident appears to have unfolded as follows:The incident occurred at 4:50 AM early morning of January 10, 1999. Sanjeev Nanda was returning from a late night party in Gurgaon with friends Manik Kapoor & Siddharth Gupta. Both were in their early twenties and came from influential business families - Manik's father Sudhir Kapoor runs a thriving export business was one of the closest to the Nanda Family.
Sanjeev had apparently been instructed by his parents not to drive that night, but was at the wheel 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. In any event, it is alleged that Sanjeev's BMW crashed through all the people at the police checkpoint, immediately killing two constables - Rajan Kumar (25) (of 86th Battalion of the CRPF), Ram Raj
(38) of Delhi
Delhi
Delhi , officially National Capital Territory of Delhi , is the largest metropolis by area and the second-largest by population in India, next to Mumbai. It is the eighth largest metropolis in the world by population with 16,753,265 inhabitants in the Territory at the 2011 Census...
Home Guard, and two others - Abdul Nasir
(30) and Gulab (32), who were apparently being interrogated. Another policeman, Peru Lal (40) of the Delhi Home Guard, along with
Mehendi Hassan, died later in hospital. The seventh victim, Manoj (32), survived, but is untraceable today.
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
co-passenger Manik Kapoor said: ‘‘Let’s go,’’ and they
quickly drove away.
The car was then driven to Siddharth Gupta's house in Golf Links, where
Siddharth's father Rajiv Gupta, who heads the finance firm Motor General
Finance, instructed watchman Bhola Nath and driver Shyam Singh Rana to clean
the bumpers and bonnet of the car of the blood and vestiges of the victims.
Subsequently the police charged these three with destroying evidence. A few days later, a witness Sunil Kulkarni, came forward to
describe the scene. At the time of the crash, he
was on his way to the railway station.
He deposed as follows on Jan 16, 1999:
- "They were driving very fast. The car went to the side, crushing two people. A few others were thrown away. The driver got out and looked at the damage done to the car. Then the other person in the car came out and looked behind the car. Then they quickly drove off. I came to the police on the 15th because of my guilty conscience."
NDTV sting operation
The prominent criminal lawyers involved in the case were R.K. Anand and I.U. Khan. NDTV carried out a sting operation in which they were caught on camera offering money to Sunil Kulkarni. Later the Delhi High Court barred the advocates from practising for four months.The investigation
The vehicle's broken registration plate was found on the scenethe next morning.
A 100-yard stretch near the police checkpoint was strewn with body parts and
severed limbs amid pools of blood.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the car would have been going at
140 km/h when it hit the victims.
Within a few hours of the incident,
Inspector Jagdish Pandey of the Police Control Room of Delhi Police
was able to trace the BMW by trailing the oil leak from the
accident-spot to Rajiv Gupta's garage. They found the one-month
old car, purchased in his sister Sonali Nanda's name,
with foreign number
plates, which had not been registered in India. Attempts
to clean it were still in progress. Sanjeev and his friends were arrested, but
his clothes, and those of the others who helped clean the car, were
never found.
When Sanjeev and his friends were first
charged with Culpable homicide in court, a gaggle of Delhi's
elite descended on Patiala House courts, including
ex-Admiral Nanda himself.
The Witnesses
- Manoj Malik
- Harishankar
- Sunil Kulkarni : initially volunteered to have witnessed the accident, later vacillated.
The trial
During the initial trial, the only survivor, Manoj, saidthat it might have been a truck that hit them. Since the
other six witnesses were dead, Manoj was the only voice.
It is
widely believed that he had been paid off, and has
mysteriously disappeared thereafter. Another witness,
Sunil Kulkarni had volunteered to have seen the
incident, but the elite defence team was able to
discredit him and he was portrayed as having been
"put up" by the Delhi Police.
In Sanjeev Nanda's testimony (in 92 questions over 14 pages),
he told Judge S.L. Bayana that he was not driving the car and was not the
car's owner. He said it was his sister's car and he had
nothing to do with the accident.
Sanjeev Nanda spent a few months in jail but was released on bail in May
1999. He was set a surety of
a Rs 45 crore (USD 9 million), subsequently reduced
to Rs. 15 crore (USD 3 million).
Re-trial
The case went up for re-trial. Under intense media pressure, the case was tried on a fast-track basis,and on 2 September 2008, Sanjeev Nanda was convicted by a Delhi court for mowing down six persons in the nine-year-old BMW hit-and-run case and can face a ten-year prison term.
The BMW case joins a long list of similar cases.
A few years back, Puru Raj Kumar, the son of Bollywood Actor Raj Kumar, had
run over two pavement dwellers. He had been fined Rs. 35000 (about USD
1000).
Timeline
1999- 10 January, A speeding BMWBMWBayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
drives through a police check-point in Delhi and kills 6 people.
2007
- 18 May, key whitness Sunil Kulkarni says Sanjeev Nanda was 1 of the 3 people in the BMW
- 1 June, Sanjeev Nanda says in court that he was not in the BMWBMWBayerische Motoren Werke AG is a German automobile, motorcycle and engine manufacturing company founded in 1916. It also owns and produces the Mini marque, and is the parent company of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars. BMW produces motorcycles under BMW Motorrad and Husqvarna brands...
2008
- March, Sanjeev and his father Suresh Nanda was arrested from a Mumbai hotel for allegedly bribing an income tax official. Suresh nanda was also once accused by CBI for purchasing barak missiles from Israel 8 years ago. Both were bailed out in that case.
- 2 September, Sanjeev Nanda was convicted by a Delhi court for mowing down six persons in the nine-year-old BMW hit-and-run case and can face a ten-year prison term.
- 5 September, Sanjeev Nanda gets five year jail term for mowing down six persons in the nine-year-old BMW hit-and-run case
- 19 December, granted three weeks interim bail to meet his ailing grandfather S M Nanda
2009
- The Delhi High Court on January 9 rejected a plea of BMW-hit-and-run case convict Sanjeev Nanda to extend in his interim bail which expires on Saturday. Justice Kailash Gambhir dismissed the petition of Nanda which means he had to surrender himself 10 January. Nanda, undergoing five years jail term in the BMW hit-and-run case, was earlier on December 19 granted three-week interim bail to meet his ailing grandfather and former Naval Chief S M Nanda.
- 22 August, Sanjeev Nanda was freed from jail three months before his two-year jail term ended due to his good conduct. Nanda walked free from Tihar Jail No 4, where he was lodged. According to rules, a convict can earn three months of remission every year if he conducts himself in a positive manner.
2010
- 8 March, Sanjeev Nanda weds his girlfriend Medha Bhatnagar amidst extravagant floral décor by designer Tarun Tahiliani, lavish multi-cuisine spread from Hotel Claridges and a guest list that boasted the rich and famous of India.
The Barak Missile scam
Sanjeev Nanda is also involved in the Barak missile scam, a case in which his company, the weapon trading firm Crown Corporation, was implicated for massive bribes to Indian politicians and defence officials.A Tehelka
Tehelka
Tehelka is an Indian weekly political magazine under the editorship of Tarun Tejpal known for its undercover exposé style of journalism. Its cover price is Rs 20 per issue. The publication began in 2000 as a news website, Tehelka.com...
investigation in 2001 revealed possible influence
Lt-Cmdr Suresh Nanda
Suresh Nanda
Suresh Nanda is an Indian businessman, former Lt. Commander for the Indian navy, arms dealer, investment banker in the UAE and owner of several companies including the firm Crown Corporation, C-1 India, Dynatron Services, and the Claridges hotels in India...
and Admiral SM Nanda may have had with
the Indian Ministry of Defence in swinging deals.
In these tapes, the reporter is posing as a representative of the fictional
large arms supplier West End.
At one point, the Samata Party
Samata Party
The Samata Party is a political party in India. Initially formed as an offshoot of the Janata Dal in 1994 by Nitish Kumar and George Fernandes. The reason given was that the Janata Dal had shifted to casteism...
national treasurer RK Jain is trying to
convince Tehelka about his prowess in swinging
deals. He mentions how in the first
defence deal that he was involved in as the party treasurer,
Suresh Nanda of Crown Corporation had paid Samata Party Rs 1 crore to swing
the Rs 250-crore (USD 60 million)
order for Armoured Recovery Vehicles (ARV) in favour of a Slovakian company.
- Samata Party treasurer R.K. Jain: "Nanda approached me. Czechoslovakia's price was the lowest, second Slovakian, third was the Poland."
- Tehelka: "Haan, Haan."
- R.K. Jain: "He said, 'I will give you one crore rupees in advance'."
- Tehelka: "Okay."
- R.K. Jain: "You get disapproved the last one. Czechoslovakia because they are so lower that we cannot match their price."
- Tehelka: "Okay."
- R.K. Jain: "If you can push him out. Delegation is going on to the... delegation has been ordered to go to Czechoslovakia. Stop this delegation, and technically reject this company. Here are the documents."
- Tehelka: "Hmm."
- R.K.Jain: "By which it's proved that this company is closed for the last two years. They will start only after getting this order."
- Tehelka: "Yeah, yeah."
- R.K. Jain: "I will give one crore rupees. And I will give you... if they are technically disapproved, then you are my agent."
- Tehelka: "Yeah."
- R.K. Jain: "For this particular... perks... and I will give you so much of commission."
- Tehelka: "Okay."
- R.K. Jain: "I said, 'Fine.' He gave me the correspondence. I took the correspondence to George."
- Tehelka: "Hmm."
- R.K. Jain: "And he said, 'All right, I'll reject it.' He is a very intelligent man."...
- Tehelka: Okay, it is manipulated.
- R.K. Jain: He wrote straight away on the file himself. He never goes and orders to a Joint Secretary. He wrote it himself, and sent the file back. Nanda gave me one crore rupees. He called me, "Yes, Mr. Jain, the file has come down. Like you know George…"
- Tehelka: Yeah, yeah.
Jain also said that he had received another Rs 1 crore for the Samata Party from Suresh Nanda to help swing the contract for an air-to-air and surface-to-surface missile system for the Indian Navy. Nanda was an agent for the Israeli Barak missile system.
These tapes were the result of a clandestine
sting operation
Sting operation
In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person committing a crime. A typical sting will have a law-enforcement officer or cooperative member of the public play a role as criminal partner or potential victim and go along with a suspect's actions to gather...
and are not admissible as evidence
in court. However, the intense media pressure led to a separate investigation
by the Central Bureau of Investigation
Central Bureau of Investigation
The Central Bureau of Investigation is a government agency of India that serves as a criminal investigation body, national security agency and intelligence agency. It was established on 1 April 1963 and evolved from the Special Police Establishment founded in 1941...
and five years later, R.K. Jain was arrested in February 2006.
In October 2006, the Central Bureau of Investigation
Central Bureau of Investigation
The Central Bureau of Investigation is a government agency of India that serves as a criminal investigation body, national security agency and intelligence agency. It was established on 1 April 1963 and evolved from the Special Police Establishment founded in 1941...
filed charges against George Fernandes, former Chief of Naval Staff Admiral Sushil Kumar
Sushil Kumar
Sushil Kumar may refer to:*Sushil Kumar , Indian wrestler*Sushil Kumar , former Indian Chief of Naval Staff...
, and others in the Barak missile case, claiming that there was reasonable basis to suspect corruption and criminal conspiracy.
Finally, seven years after the expose, in March 2008, the Nandas were arrested.
See also
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are being tried for perjuryPerjuryPerjury, also known as forswearing, is the willful act of swearing a false oath or affirmation to tell the truth, whether spoken or in writing, concerning matters material to a judicial proceeding. That is, the witness falsely promises to tell the truth about matters which affect the outcome of the...
for turning hostile in court. - Priyadarshini MattooPriyadarshini MattooPriyadarshini Mattoo was a 25-year-old law student who was found raped and murdered at her house in New Delhi on January 23, 1996. On October 17, 2006, the Delhi High Court found Santosh Kumar Singh guilty on both counts of rape and murder and on October 30 of the same year sentenced him to death...
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was a project director at the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI). He was murdered in Gaya, Bihar after fighting corruption in the Golden Quadrilateral highway construction project. - Shanmughan Manjunath: Indian Institute of Management Lucknow graduate and Indian Oil Corporation employee Manjunath was brutally murdered by the oil mafia in 2005 when he tried to check petrol adulteration in Lakhimpur Kheri, Uttar Pradesh.