MUMBAI, June 24: The Mumbai Sessions Court today rejected Salman Khan’s Review Petiton in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
The actor had earlier challenged a Magistrate Court saying that there was not enough proof to charge him with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
In view of the Sessions Court’s order, Salman will now be tried under Section 304 part II of the IPC under which he could be awarded a ten-year jail term.
The court depended heavily on the testimony of the witnesses and the Medical Examiner who deposed that the actor knew what he was doing and was aware of his actions when his SUV ran over a group of people sleeping on the pavement outside a bakery in suburban Bandra in early hours on September 28, 2002.
One person was killed and four others were injured when the Land Cruiser allegedly driven by Salman crushed them.
Salman was earlier tried by a magistrate under lesser charge of causing death by negligence (Section 304A of IPC), that provides for a maximum punishment of two years in jail.
However, in a twist to the case, the metropolitan magistrate, after examining 17 witnesses, had brought forth the more serious charge of culpable homicide against the 47-year-old actor and transferred it to a sessions court for re-trial.
(UNI)
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