MUMBAI, Mar 25: A local court today rejected Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s plea praying for extention to appear in court to record his statement in the hit-and-run case of 2002. Special Public Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat said that as examination of all the witnesses has been completed, the court will now record Khan’s statement of Khan. In the re-trial, the prosecution examined 27 witnesses and Gharat told the court that they have no more witnesses left to be examined.
Khan today moved an application seeking permission to extend the date of his appearance in the court. Judge D W Despande rejected his plea, and he will now have to appear in the court on March 27 to record his statement. Khan’s statement will be recorded under section 313 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) that allows the accused to tell the
court his side of the story at the fag-end of the trial. The actor was arrested after his car rammed into a bakery in suburban Bandra in the early hours of September 28, 2002, claiming one life and injuring four others.
A re-trial is being conducted after the charge of culpable homicide, which provides for imprisonment of up to 10 years, was invoked.
Earlier, the trial was being conducted by a magistrate, who had charged the actor with rash and negligent driving, which attracts only two years’ jail term.
(UNI)
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