Hit-and-run case: Will it be bail or jail for Salman Khan?

Mangalore Today News Network

Mumbai, May 08, 2015: It is a crucial day for Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, who has been convicted and sentenced to five years in jail for killing a homeless man in a 2002 hit-and-run case, as Bombay High Court is due to hear his bail plea on Friday. Bombay high court will today decided whether superstar Salman Khan will go to jail to serve a five-year prison term handed down to him or get bail.

Bollywood superstar Salman khan, who was convicted by sessions court judge DW Deshpande on Wednesday, in the 13 year old infamous 2002 hit-and-run case, and sentenced to 5 years in jail, is awaiting his bail plea decision by the Bombay High Court today.

Reports suggest that senior advocate Harish Salve will not be representing the actor in the High Court. The actor’s plea will come up before Justice Abhay Thipsay who granted him interim bail for two days on medical and other grounds on Wednesday, soon after his conviction and sentencing by the sessions court.

Salman’s legal team as received a voluminous 240-page judgement.

However, Salman who has been on bail for nearly 13 years, is not likely to be present in the court today.

The interim bail had come hours after Salman was found guilty and subsequently sentenced to five years in jail, plus a fine of Rs.25,000 by Additional Sessions Judge D. W. Deshpande, who had pronounced him guilty on all the prosecution charges, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, rash and drunken driving, driving without a valid licence and other laws.

The ruling came in the 13-year old accident case when Salman’s Toyota Land Cruiser rammed into a bakery in Bandra west, in the early hours of September 28, 2002, killing one pavement dweller and injuring four others, a short distance from his sea-facing home in Galaxy Apartments.

The hearing would be crucial for the actor since it is the final working day of the high court before it goes for annual summer vacations till June 8.

 

 

Courtesy: Zeenews