Thursday, December 10, 2015

Bollywood Actor Salman Khan acquitted in deadly 13-year-old hit-and-run case



An Indian high court overturned Bollywood actor Salman Khan's conviction in a 13-year-old hit-and-run case, thereby scrapping a lower court's sentence of five years in jail.

Khan 49, who was accused of driving drunk in 2002 and ramming into a group of homeless people sleeping on a city sidewalk, killing one and injuring four was found guilty of culpable homicide by a Mumbai criminal court in May 2015. 

On Thursday, Justice A. R. Joshi ruled that the testimony of the state's star witness was not "wholly reliable", and that the prosecution had not been able to prove that Khan was drunk at the time of the accident. Khan therefore has been acquitted. Prosecutors said they had not decided whether to challenge verdict.

No comments:

Post a Comment