Bailable warrant against Salman Khan cancelled

Mumbai: A Mumbai sessions court on Saturday cancelled a bail able warrant issued against Bollywood star Salman Khan in the 2002 hit and run case, in which the government's appeal against his acquittal is pending before the Supreme Court (SC). In the early month of April, the court that had conducted trial of Khan issued bail able warrant against the actor for not furnishing the surety as per the direction of the Supreme Court.

The court cancelled the warrant after he appeared before the special judge M.G. Deshpande and completed the formality of furnishing the surety. Earlier this February, Khan had approached the apex court for discharge of his surety given by his former publicist Reshma Shetty and wanted to replace it with his bodyguard Shera alias Gurmeet Singh Jolly’s surety.

The Apex court, which is hearing the appeal, filed in the 2002 case by the state government, had allowed his plea on February 23. He was asked to comply with the process.

The session’s court had issued two notices to Mr Khan — one on March 5 and second on March 16.

In December 2015, the Bombay high court acquitted him of all criminal charges for a lack of substantial evidence, seven months after the session’s court held him guilty.

The actor was accused of running his car over few people sleeping on the pavement in suburban Bandra in 2002. The trial court awarded him a five-year jail term. A court in Jodhpur recently sentenced the actor to five years in jail for killing a black buck in 1998.