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Salman Khan's To Record Statement Regarding 2002 Hit-And-Run Case Today

Salman Khan's To Record Statement Regarding 2002 Hit-And-Run Case Today
FILE â In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, Bollywood star Salman Khan poses wearing a Being Human T-shirt during the launch of Being Human's first flagship store in Mumbai, India. A Mumbai court has ruled that Khan will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in jail. The trial will begin on July 19. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)FILE â In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, Bollywood star Salman Khan poses wearing a Being Human t-shirt during the launch of Being Human's first flagship store in Mumbai, India. A Mumbai court has ruled that Indian movie star Salman Khan, who is one of Bollywood's biggest stars, will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in jail. The trial will begin on July 19. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)
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FILE â In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, Bollywood star Salman Khan poses wearing a Being Human T-shirt during the launch of Being Human's first flagship store in Mumbai, India. A Mumbai court has ruled that Khan will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in jail. The trial will begin on July 19. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)FILE â In this Thursday, Jan. 17, 2013 file photo, Bollywood star Salman Khan poses wearing a Being Human t-shirt during the launch of Being Human's first flagship store in Mumbai, India. A Mumbai court has ruled that Indian movie star Salman Khan, who is one of Bollywood's biggest stars, will be tried for homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal road accident more than 10 years ago. If convicted he faces up to 10 years in jail. The trial will begin on July 19. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

MUMBAI — Today, Bollywood actor Salman Khan is to record a statement regarding the 2002 hit-and-run case, where he allegedly ran over several pavement dwellers outside his house in Bandra.

Sessions Judge DW Deshpande ordered Khan to remain present in the court today when his statement, under Section 313 of the Criminal Procedure Code, will be recorded in his retrial for the September 28, 2002, accident in which he ran over several people outside a bakery near the actor's home in suburban Bandra. One person was killed and four others were injured.

Hit & Run case: Salman Khan leaves from his residence in Mumbai for recording his statement. pic.twitter.com/OdIfreFUr3

— ANI (@ANI_news) March 27, 2015

#HitAndRun case: Salman Khan reaches sessions court to record his statement.

— ANI (@ANI_news) March 27, 2015

Investigating officer of the court enters

Court summons Salman Khan.

The actor enters a packed courtroom, reports @vinivdvc@Mumbai_Connect

— Sudhish Kamath (@SudhishKamath) March 27, 2015

The actor's plea for adjournment came on grounds that his presence was required in a court in Rajasthan's Jodhpur where he is accused of illegal possession and use of arms in poaching a blackbuck.

Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat strongly opposed the plea for adjournment filed by Salman Khan's lawyer Shrikant Shivade on grounds that the hit-and-run case should be given priority as it is conducted on a day-to-day basis and its programme was fixed by the Mumbai court before the Jodhpur court schedules were finalised.

Gharat also informed the court that it had closed the evidence in the case and placed on record three photographs of the vehicle involved in the accident.

Today, the actor's statement will be recorded in which he will be able to put his side of the story.

The court would take the opportunity to question Salman Khan on various aspects of the trial, while the actor will be able to put up his defence to the evidence produced before the court by prosecution.

Till date, around 25 witnesses have given evidence in the case.

Salman Khan was arrested soon after the accident and later the case was tried before a magistrate's court for charges of rash and negligent driving, attracting a two-year jail sentence.

However, a fresh trial was ordered after the enhanced charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder was invoked, which stipulates a 10-year-long prison sentence.

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