Supreme Court granted bail to Rajiv Gupta who was convicted by the Delhi High Court for destroying evidence in BMW hit-and-run case. The main accused of this case Sanjeev Nanda sentenced to two years imprisonment.
A Bench comprisng Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan, Justices P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan allowed the plea by Gupta whose one-year prison term awarded by the trial court was reduced to six months by the High Court.
After his conviction was upheld by the HC, the accused had moved the Supreme court through senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi and Subramonium Prasad for bail.