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In what can be called a seemingly predictable turn of events, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan who is still braving the ghost of his notorious 2002 hit-and-run case, has apparently heaving a sigh of relief . Sources claim that hearing in the case which was scheduled for Friday has been adjourned and will be reschedules. On March 3, a trial court here had rejected the prosecution’s plea asking Salman to produce his driving license in the court in connection with the case.
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A Mumbai sessions court in its last hearing permitted the prosecution in the Salman Khan hit-and-run case to rely on the statements of his deceased bodyguard Ravindra Patil, who was a witness to the 2002 accident, and a medico who performed the autopsy on the accident victim. Patil, a police bodyguard, died in October 2007 due to natural causes when the trial was underway before the magistrate court, while Sanap, the doctor who performed the autopsy, lives in the US.
The late Patil had earlier recorded his statement before a magistrate, which the prosecution demanded should be taken on record in the ongoing fresh trial in the sessions court after the additional charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was slapped against Salman Khan. In his statement, Patil said he was sitting next to Salman Khan and warned him against rash-driving but the actor did not heed the advice. Later, he lodged the police complaint after the accident in which a pavement dweller was killed and four others were injured in Bandra in the early morning of September 28, 2002.
With inputs from IANS
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