The defence today claimed that Nanda and his two friends fled the spot with the intention of escaping. Nanda's counsel RK Anand reiterated that his client did not restart his car because he had wanted to kill someone.

``They might have hit the persons standing on the road. And as the prosecution says, one of them told Sanjeev to run. This clearly shows the boys were scared and therefore sped away out of fear,'' Anand submitted. He stressed that there was no motivation on Nanda's part to kill anyone. ``They were probably drunk and it was a mere escape.''

The defence has also moved an application seeking permission to produce a video-recording of the version given by Sunil Kulkarni, the key witness to the accident, to the media. Anandcontended in court that Kulkarni's subsequent statements to the police contradict that version.

Earlier, Anand forwarded certain arguments to establish the accident had been caused probably by another car. His presentation included prosecution evidence, which according to him, do not corroborate the prosecution theory.

Anand said, the prosecution story about the glass pieces being scattered within a distance of 100 to 125 feet was false. ``The BMW hit the pavement first. Its right headlight was damaged. There was no impact on the windscreen. It is impractical that glass pieces had scattered at the said distance,'' Anand argued.

He also tabled the CFSL report which showed there was no reaction in the earth samples picked up from the spot. ``The inference of the report is that the earth samples did not contain blood,'' Anand said.

Anand also challenged the finding of certain draging marks, which the prosecution has claimed belonged to the bodies dragged by the BMW car.

According to him, there was atrunk which was also dragged to the other end of the road. The postmortem reports do not indicate that the bodies had ever been dragged. ``The evidence of the prosecution does not corroborate its arguments,'' Anand held.

He cited Supreme Court judgements to prove that the case could not be tried as murder nor as a case of causing death with intention.