Mumbai: Bollywood mega star Salman Khan has reportedly reached the court to record his statement on the 13-year-old hit-and-run case in which he allegedly ran his vehicle over pavement dwellers here. A man was killed and four others were injured.
Salman has been ordered to personally appear before Additional Sessions Judge D.W. Deshpande to record his statement under Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure on the evidence and sequence of events in the case.
Judge Deshpande on Wednesday rejected a plea by Salman’s lawyer Shrikant Shivade for adjournment for three weeks as the actor was also required to appear before a court in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, in a case of possessing arms and poaching a blackbuck.
In the early hours of September 28, 2002, Salman’s white Toyota Land Cruiser rammed into the American Express Bakery in Bandra, close to his seafront home in Galaxy Apartments. He fled from the accident site.
In a dramatic twist to the case, after almost a decade, in January 2013, Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate V.S. Patil slapped enhanced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against Salman, which stipulates a 10-year jail term.
Accordingly, since December 2013, the re-trial has been proceeding on a day-to-day basis, and the prosecution has completed its submission of evidence against Salman. The actor is also facing charges under the Motor Vehicles Act, and the Bombay Prohibition Act.
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