Bollywood superstar Salman Khan will be
tried for culpable homicide not
amounting to murder in connection with
the 2002 hit and run case. In this the
actor could face a maximum sentence of
10 years in jail.
Salman Khan has pleaded "not guilty" to
the charge. He has also been exempted
from personal appearance in trial.
Salman Khan's sisters Alvira and Arpita
were also there in the court with their
brother.
Sessions judge U B Hejib had on June 24
upheld a metropolitan court's order that
the offence of culpable homicide not
amounting to murder was made out
against the 47-year-old Bollywood
superstar, dismissed his appeal against the verdict, and asked him to appear
before the court today.
Salman Khan had earlier been tried by a
metropolitan magistrate for a lesser
offence of causing death by negligence
(Section 304 A of IPC), which provides for
a maximum sentence of two years.
The trial in the sessions court would start
afresh as the Bandra metropolitan court
had halted the proceedings midway after
examining 17 witnesses, ruling that the
more serious charge of culpable
homicide was made out against the actor.
An offence under the charge of culpable
homicide is triable by a sessions court.
A man was killed and four others were
injured when a Land Cruiser allegedly
driven by an inebriated Salman had
ploughed through a group of people
sleeping on the pavement outside a
bakery in suburban Bandra in the wee hours of September 28, 2002 (With PTI
inputs)
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