In 1999, his grandson Sanjeev Nanda became the news. Sanjeev drove a newly imported BMW car over several people in Delhi early in the morning of 10 January 1999 while returning from a party. Six people died. In court, the young man’s high-profile lawyers argued that it was not Nanda’s car that mowed down those people. On 30 May 2007, the news channel NDTV ran a hidden-camera operation showing defence lawyer R.K. Anand and public prosecutor I.U. Khan working to win over a key witness to the accident, so that he would lie in court and save Sanjeev. This was a rare glimpse into how even the
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