The Maharashtra government on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court’s verdict acquitting Bollywood superstar Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case in which one person was
The Maharashtra government on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Bombay high court’s verdict acquitting Bollywood superstar Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case in which one person was killed and four others were injured.
The petition was filed in the top court against the high court’s judgment acquitting Salman of “all charges”, overturning trial court’s order sentencing him for five years.
“The Bombay high court has erred in not appreciating the prosecution evidence. The trial court’s order convicting Salman Khan was correct and should be upheld,” Sandeep Shinde, the public prosecutor who has been associated with the case, said about the contents of the special leave petition (SLP).
The high court, in its verdict passed on December 10 last year, had held that prosecution had failed to prove “beyond reasonable doubt” that the actor was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident and was drunk.
The judgment by the high court had come on an appeal by the superstar, seven months after he was pronounced guilty by trial court of running over five people sleeping on a pavement outside a laundry in suburban Bandra with his Toyota Land Cruiser, killing one and causing injury to four others on October 28, 2002.
