New Delhi, July 21 - The family and friends of Sanjeev Nanda, convicted for running over six people with his BMW in 1999, were not the only ones relieved by the Delhi High Court's reduction of his sentence. Utsav Bhasin, accused of knocking down and killing a man riding a scooter with his BMW in 2008, congratulated Nanda on a social networking website.

On Monday, the court reduced Nanda's jail term from five years to two. Later that evening, Bhasin posted 'Congrats' on Nanda's Facebook page.

The day before the hearing, a message from Bhasin read: 'Hey Sanjeev...high time now...just waiting for the judgement...so unfair has been reserved since so long...hope to see you out soon brother.'

Nanda, the grandson of former Naval chief S.M. Nanda and son of arms dealer Suresh Nanda, was returning from a party in suburban Gurgaon with his friends Manik Kapoor and Siddharth Gupta in his luxury car in the early hours of Jan 10, 1999, when he went over six people in south Delhi's Lodhi Colony area.