Salman Khan hit-and-run case: All charges proved, actor was behind the wheel

by Shivendra Singh · May 6, 2015

Salman Khan is being tried for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

Bringing to an end the 12-year-old trial against actor Salman Khan, Judge D W Deshpande told the actor that he was behind the wheel on that ill-fated night.

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The judge has taken the case on priority basis and has heard 28 witnesses and the final arguments for over a week.

Khan is accused of running over five persons sleeping on a platform outside a bakery in Bandra, in his white Land Cruiser, early September 28, 2002, killing one of them. Khan, according to the prosecution, was driving the car in an inebriated condition. The 49-year-old actor now stands guilty of culpable homicide.

The court will order him to be taken into custody and sent to the nearby jail ( in this case the Arthur Road jail) until the Maharashtra Prisons authorities decide on which jail Khan should be lodged in.

Source:: Indian Express