New Delhi, July 20 (Inditop.com) Delhi High Court Monday came down heavily on Mumbai resident Sunil Kulkarni, a key witness in the BMW hit-and-run case, terming him as “the most dishonest, unreliable, untrustworthy and untruthful witness”.
“His entry in the case is as dramatic as could happen only in our Bollywood movies,” Justice Kailash Gambhir said in his 274-page order.
The court ordered initiation of criminal proceedings for perjury against Kulkarni, who was relied on heavily by the trial court to hold Sanjeev Nanda and three others guilty in the 10-year-old case.
“The deposition of court witness (Kulkarni) is thrown out lock, stock and barrel,” the high court said.
Initially, Kulkarni had introduced himself as a witness without any extraneous reason.
“An accident which was the result of a rash and negligent act was turned into a sinister game with ulterior design to defeat the justice delivery system. Not only we saw a wily witness in Sunil Kulkarni but also found that the prosecution was no less slippery,” the court said.
“It is time to think and ponder how fast and to what extent we can take corrective measures to ensure that the justice delivery system does not become a laughing stock and is not reduced to a mockery by persons like Sunil Kulkarni and police officials of doubtful integrity. It also calls for introspection on the part of legal fraternity so as to ensure that the fair name of legal profession does not in any way come into disrepute,” the court said.
