The Bombay High Court is slated to deliver its verdict this week on an appeal filed by actor Salman Khan against the five year sentence awarded to him in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
The arguments in the case was concluded on Saturday and Judge A R Joshi said he would begin dictation of judgement on the appeal from Monday.
A sessions court had on May 6 convicted the 49-year-old actor on the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder under IPC and other offences.
An aggrieved Salman filed an appeal in the High Court which granted him bail before hearing arguments in the case.
It is the case of the prosecution that Salman had consumed liquor at ‘Rain Bar and Restaurant’ at Vile Parle before ramming his Toyota Lexus car into a shop at Bandra on September 28, 2002. One person died in the mishap and four others were injured.
The prosecution has argued that there were three persons in the car — Salman, his singer friend Kamaal Khan and the actor’s police bodyguard Ravindra Patil, who passed away during the trial in 2007.
Relying upon the statement of Patil, the prosecution argued that Salman was driving the car. However, it did not examine Kamaal Khan who has since then gone abroad.
