Salman Khan hit-and-run case: HC to hear actor’s appeal from July 30

Mangalore Today News Network

New Delhi, July 27, 2015: The Bombay High Court on Monday said it will hear the appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan against the five-year sentence awarded to him in the hit-and-run case from July 30 on a regular basis.

Salman’s lawyer Amit Desai sought adjournment of hearing till August 3, but Justice AR Joshi did not consider his plea and decided to hear the 49-year-old actor’s appeal from July 30. The actor did not come to the court today. His sister, Alvira, was, however, present.

In a related development, the Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the petition filed by the mother of a deceased Mumbai police constable, seeking transfer of Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s 2002 hit-and-run case from Mumbai to Delhi. The apex court also dismissed a plea seeking cancellation of bail given to Salman Khan after the conviction where he was sentenced for five years of jail term.

Salman Khan was convicted by a sessions court on May 6 and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on various counts, including ’culpable homicide not amounting to murder’. On May 8, the High Court granted him bail and suspended his sentence. It had also said that the actor would need to seek the court’s permission every time he wants to travel outside the country.

A man was killed and four others were injured when the actor’s Toyota Land Cruiser ran over them while they were asleep on a pavement outside a bakery in suburban Bandra on September 28, 2002.

Salman Khan on Sunday created a huge commotion with his tweets on 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts convict Yakub Memon’s hanging, which he had to retract eventually.