Mumbai: A Mumbai sessions court will deliver its verdict on June 10 on the admissibility of an appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan challenging a magistrate's order invoking the charge of culpable homicide against him in a 2002 hit-and-run case.
Sessions judge UB Hejib fixed June 10 for deciding the appeal after arguments concluded on Wednesday. The 47-year-old actor was granted exemption from personal appearance on a plea by his counsel Ashok Mudargi that he was out of town on account of professional engagement.
Advancing his arguments against invoking the grave charge of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' (section 304 part II IPC), Mundargi pleaded the magistrate's order was "erroneous, bad in law and contrary to evidence on record."
The magistrate, he contended, had failed to appreciate that the actor had neither the intention (to kill people) nor the knowledge that his rash and negligent driving would kill a person and cause injury to four others....
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05:18 PM, May 08, 2013
Bollywood actor Salman Khan is all set to appear in person before a Sessions Court in Mumbai in the 2002 hit-and-run case on March 25. He would return from the USA on Saturday night and appear before the Court on Monday, sources close to the superstar said. ... 
Actor Salman Khan had knowledge that his act of rash driving would result in death or injuries to people, a Magistrate observed while charging him with a more serious offence of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in a decade-old hit-and-run case. ... 
