New Delhi, Sep 05, 2008[IBNLive]: The Patiala House Court on Friday sentenced Sanjeev Nanda to five years of rigorous imprisonment in the nine-year-old BMW hit-and-run case.
 

"Sanjeev Nanda, I award you five years jail term and the time earlier spent by you inside the jail would be deducted," said Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar.
 

Nanda was held guilty under section 304 (2) (culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), for which the maximum punishment is 10 years.
 

The other accused in the case businessman Rajiv Gupta has been given a one-year jail sentence and imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 and his two domestic helps Bhola Nath and Sham Singh have been given a six-month jail term each. Nath and Singh were also fined Rs 100 each.
 

Gupta, Singh and Nath, who were held guilty of destroying evidence under Section 201 (destruction of evidence) of the IPC, were granted bail on Rs 10,000 bond each. The defence also decided to appeal against the conviction and sentencing within the next two months in the Delhi High Court.
 

Nanda, grandson of an ex-Navy chief SM Nanda, was found guilty in the case earlier this week. He had mowed down six people, including three policemen, while driving his BMW car in a drunken state in the early hours of January 10, 1999 at Lodhi Colony in south Delhi.
 

Public prosecutor Rajeev Mohan had sought the maximum punishment of 10 years for Nanda.
 

Earlier on Wednesday, the court had deferred by two days the sentencing in the case.