BMW case

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The BMW Case refers to a notorious hit-and-run incident in New Delhi, India, where a rich and influential businessmen's son in an inebriated condition were alleged to have driven a BMW into a police checkpoint in the wee hours of January 10, 1999.

Three policemen and three others died in the incident which left a trail of body parts over a long stretch of road.

The car was being driven by Sanjeev Nanda, whose father Suresh Nanda is the owner of the international arms trading firm Crown Corporation. Also in the car were Siddharth Gupta (son of Rajiv Gupta, head of Motor General Finance) and Manik Kapoor (son of Sudhir Kapoor, leading exporter). Rajiv Gupta, whose house the accused had driven to, was also charged along with two servants, with cleaning up the blood and flesh on the car and destroying evidence.

In the trial however, all witnesses turned hostile and Sanjeev Nanda and others were let off. Owing to the slow pace of the investigation, several of the accused were given permission to go abroad even while the case was undertrial.

The case caused widespread disaffection with the manner in which rich and influential people manage to avoid the processes of Indian Law, and the Civil trial is still in progress.^{[citation needed]}