{"id":40327,"date":"2015-12-10T05:23:06","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/?p=40327"},"modified":"2015-12-10T05:25:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T23:55:03","slug":"patil-a-wholly-unreliable-witness-in-salman-case-hc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/patil-a-wholly-unreliable-witness-in-salman-case-hc","title":{"rendered":"Patil a wholly unreliable witness in Salman case: HC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/salmankhan.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40328\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"167\" data-attachment-id=\"40328\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/patil-a-wholly-unreliable-witness-in-salman-case-hc\/salmankhan-2\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/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\/12\/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\/12\/salmankhan.jpg?fit=640%2C356&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-40328\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/salmankhan.jpg?resize=300%2C167&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"salmankhan\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/salmankhan.jpg?resize=300%2C167&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.legalindia.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/12\/salmankhan.jpg?w=759&amp;ssl=1 759w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Bombay High Court on Wednesday doubted the evidence of Ravindra Patil, former police bodyguard of Bollywood star Salman Khan and witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case, observing that he was \u201cwholly unreliable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Justice A R Joshi said this while dictating the verdict in the appeal filed by the actor against the five-year sentence awarded to him by a Mumbai sessions court on May 6 this year. The high court will pronounce its verdict in the case tomorrow.<br \/>\nPatil had lodged the FIR in this case on September 28, 2002, hours after the mishap occurred. In the FIR, he did not mention whether Salman was driving the car under the influence of liquor.<\/p>\n<p>However, on October 1, 2002, after the receipt of Salman\u2019s blood test report, Patil gave a statement before a Magistrate saying that the actor had taken drinks on the ill-fated day and he had warned him not to drive rashly or else he would meet with an accident but Salman did not pay heed to his advice.<\/p>\n<p>The Judge observed today that the evidence of Patil was doubtful because he had made improvements in his version later when his statement was recorded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn view of this, he (Patil) is \u201cwholly unreliable witness\u201d, the Judge noted while dictating his order in the court for the third consecutive day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven if his statement has to be considered as partially reliable, there has to be corroboration in evidence which is not existing in this case,\u201d said the Judge in the court jampacked with lawyers, reporters and law students.<\/p>\n<p>Ravindra Patil passed away in 2007 and was not available during the trial in the sessions court. However, the prosecution had produced Patil\u2019s statement recorded by a Magistrate earlier in which he had implicated Salman.<\/p>\n<p>The trial court accepted Patil\u2019s statement and said it was admissible in law, based on which the actor was convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Salman, however, challenged the admissibility of the statement and said the witness was not available to him for cross-examination and contended that the trial court had erred in accepting this piece of evidence.<\/p>\n<p>The High Court, however, is yet to give a ruling on the admissibility of Patil\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>On September 28, 2002, the actor\u2019s car had rammed into a shop in suburban Bandra. In the mishap, one person was killed and four others injured.<\/p>\n<p>Salman, who is on bail, did not come to the court, though his sister, Alvira Khan-Agnihotri, attended the hearing<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; See more at: https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/india-news-india\/salman-khan-hit-and-run-case\/#sthash.MQdJxGzt.dpuf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bombay High Court on Wednesday doubted the evidence of Ravindra Patil, former police bodyguard of Bollywood star Salman Khan and witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case, observing that he was \u201cwholly unreliable.\u201d Justice A R Joshi said this while dictating the verdict in the appeal filed by the actor against the five-year sentence awarded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1954],"tags":[47741,31987,11370,34896],"class_list":["post-40327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-profile-cases","tag-bombay-high-court","tag-featured","tag-hc","tag-salman-case"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Patil a wholly unreliable witness in Salman case: HC - Legal News India - Supreme Court &amp; High Court Updates<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Bombay High Court on Wednesday doubted the evidence of Ravindra Patil, former police bodyguard of Bollywood star Salman Khan and witness in the 2002 - Get the latest legal news from the Supreme Court, High Courts, and government. 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