{"id":38480,"date":"2015-07-27T08:53:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=38480"},"modified":"2015-07-27T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T08:53:27","slug":"bombay-high-court-to-hear-salmans-appeal-against-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/bombay-high-court-to-hear-salmans-appeal-against-conviction","title":{"rendered":"Bombay High Court to hear Salman&#8217;s appeal against conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38147\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/salman.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"38147\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/petition-seeks-probe-into-death-of-witness-in-salmans-case\/salman\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/salman.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"225,225\" 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=\"salman\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/salman.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/salman.jpg?fit=225%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-38147 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/salman.jpg?resize=225%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Bombay High Court to hear Salman's appeal against conviction\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/salman.jpg?w=225&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/salman.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/salman.jpg?resize=125%2C125&amp;ssl=1 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bombay High Court to hear Salman&#8217;s appeal against conviction<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Bombay High Court today said it will hear the appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan against the five-year sentence awarded to him in the 2002 hit-and-run case from July 30 on a regular basis.<\/p>\n<p>Salman&#8217;s lawyer Amit Desai sought adjournment of hearing till August 3, but Justice A R Joshi did not consider his plea and decided to hear the 49-year-old actor&#8217;s appeal from July 30.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the judge also dismissed an intervention plea for granting a stay on the hearing on the ground that the applicant had no locus standi in the matter.<\/p>\n<p>A murder convict, whose appeal has not been heard since 2009, had filed the intervention application. His contention was that the matters involving celebrities were being heard out-of-turn, whereas those of others were kept pending and such convicts have to languish in jail.<\/p>\n<p>He has also filed a separate petition making the same allegation about appeals of celebrities being heard urgently. His lawyer Aparna Vatkar prayed that his appeal may be heard expeditiously.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor S S Shinde, however, said he had no locus standi (right to be heard) in this matter. The applicant can pursue his other petition which is before another bench, said Shinde.<\/p>\n<p>The court accepted the prosecutor&#8217;s plea and rejected the application. The judge said that both the sides in Salman&#8217;s case had agreed to expeditious hearing and, therefore, the applicant had no right to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, who is on bail, did not come to the court today. His sister, Alvira, was, however, present. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Salman was convicted by a sessions court on May 6 and sentenced to five years&#8217; imprisonment on various counts, including &#8216;culpable homicide not amounting to murder&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>A man was killed and four others were injured when the actor&#8217;s Toyota Land Cruiser ran over them while they were asleep on a pavement outside a bakery in suburban Bandra on September 28, 2002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court today said it will hear the appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan against the five-year sentence awarded to him in the 2002 hit-and-run case from July 30 on a regular basis. 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