Hit-and-run case: SC admits appeal challenging verdict acquitting Salman

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, Jul 05, 2016: The Supreme Court on Tuesday admitted a plea by the Maharashtra government challenging the acquittal of Hindi film star Salman Khan in a 2002 hit-and-run case.

 

A bench of Justice Jagdish Singh Khehar and Justice Arun Mishra also refused to fast-track the hearing in the case.

Earlier, calling the actor’s acquittal a “travesty of justice”, AG Rohtagi had described the high court ruling as “perverse” and said the theory that the car was being driven by Khan’s driver should be discarded because the driver statement came years after the incident.

Salman had been acquitted by the Bombay High Court in December 2015 and later in February this year, the Supreme Court sent a notice to Salman, asking why his acquittal should not be overturned.

On September 28, 2002, Khan’s Toyota Land Cruiser had crashed into men sleeping on a pavement outside a bakery in Mumbai’s Bandra, killing one.