{"id":37351,"date":"2015-04-14T08:06:02","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=37351"},"modified":"2015-04-14T08:06:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T08:06:02","slug":"hit-and-run-case-salman-khan-was-driving-the-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/hit-and-run-case-salman-khan-was-driving-the-car","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run case: Salman Khan was driving the car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contesting Bollywood actor Salman Khan\u2018s defence that his driver was driving the Toyota Land Cruiser at the time of the 2002 hit-and-run case,prosecution today asserted before the trial court that the superstar was very much behind the wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Driver Ashok Singh was a stooge and dummy witness and had lied on oath that he was behind the wheel, the prosecution said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitness have testified in the court that they had seen Salman Khan getting down from the driver\u2019s seat and no one had witnessed actor\u2019s family driver Ashok Singh behind the wheel,\u201d said special public prosecutor Pradeep Gharat in written final arguments before Judge D W Deshpande.<\/p>\n<p>The case of the prosecution is that three persons were in the car \u2014 Salman Khan, his police bodyguard Ravindra Patil and singer friend Kamal Khan \u2014 which rammed into a bakery shop in suburban Bandra on September 28, 2002, killing one person and injuring four others who were sleeping outside.<br \/>\nHowever, Salman\u2019s lawyer Srikant Shivade had argued earlier that there were four persons in the SUV. In this regard he referred to the testimony of three witnesses \u2014 an injured victim, Manager of Rain Bar, where the actor had gone with his friend before the incident and a dairy owner, whose shop was adjacent to the bakery, where victims in deep slumber were run over by the car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy the defence has not put this question to witnesses during cross-examination asking whether Ashok Singh was the fourth person in the car besides the actor, bodyguard and Khan\u2019s friend Kamal?,\u201d asked prosecutor Gharat.<\/p>\n<p>The defence had the opportunity to cross examine the witnesses on this point, but they chose to keep quiet and only after the actor disclosed in his statement under 313 of Cr.Pc that Ashok Singh was driving the car, he (Singh) was examined as a defence witness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSingh is a liar and I pray that action may be taken against him for perjury (giving false evidence). He is a stooge and dummy witness,\u201d said Gharat in his written arguments running into 30 pages.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor further said the actor was under the influence of liquor and his blood test has revealed that the alcohol content was 62 mg per 100 ml sample.<\/p>\n<p>49-year-old Khan is facing the charge of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/salmankhan.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" data-attachment-id=\"37275\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/2002-hit-and-run-case-salman-khan-was-drunk\/salmankhan\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/salmankhan.jpg?fit=759%2C422&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"759,422\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"salmankhan\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/salmankhan.jpg?fit=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/salmankhan.jpg?fit=640%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-37275\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/salmankhan.jpg?resize=640%2C356&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"salmankhan\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/salmankhan.jpg?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/04\/salmankhan.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>which attracts jail term up to ten years. He was earlier charged with rash and negligent driving which prescribes punishment up to two years.<\/p>\n<p>Khan\u2019s lawyer would continue arguments on April 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contesting Bollywood actor Salman Khan\u2018s defence that his driver was driving the Toyota Land Cruiser at the time of the 2002 hit-and-run case,prosecution today asserted before the trial court that the superstar was very much behind the wheel. 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