New Delhi, August 21
The Delhi High Court on Thursday convicted senior advocates R K Anand and I U Khan in the BMW expose case for obstructing administration of justice.

“They are senior advocates and they did not tender either an conditional or unconditional apology for their conduct in the BMW case,” a division bench of Justices Manmohan Sarin and Madan B. Lokur said, in their 112-page verdict in the contempt case relating to the expose.

Recommending that they be stripped of their designation of senior advocate, the court asked them not to appear in the Delhi High Court and its subordinate courts for the next four months as punishment.

The bench also imposed a fine of Rs 2,000 on each of them and rapped them for their “irresponsible” behaviour, saying “we are not dealing with young lawyers. Both are seasoned lawyers and such conduct was not expected of them.”

Meanwhile, the court recommended that amicus curiae Arvind Nigam, who assisted the court in the over year-long trial, be designated as a senior advocate.

While Khan was seen in the court, Anand was not present.

Both were accused of obstructing the administration of justice by allegedly influencing a witness Sunil Kulkarni in the sensational nine-year-old BMW hit-and-run case.

Anand, the defence counsel and Khan, the prosecutor, were shown as colluding with the witness in a TV sting operation last year.