Maharashtra government move SC over HC verdict acquitting Salman Khan

Maharashtra Government has moved Supreme Court challenging the Bombay High Court's verdict acquitting Bollywood star Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case. The special leave petition, detailed out by the public prosecutor accounts that; the Bombay High Court has erred in not appreciating the prosecution evidence. It further notes that the trial court's order convicting Salman Khan was correct and should be upheld.

The High Court, in its verdict passed on December 10 last year, had held that prosecution had failed to prove



beyond reasonable doubt that the actor was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident and was drunk. The High Court had rejected as wholly unreliable the statement of eyewitness Ravindra Patil, former Police bodyguard of Salman, in which he had accused the actor of driving under the influence of liquor.

The judgment by the High Court had come on an appeal by the superstar, seven months after he was pronounced guilty by trial court of running over five people sleeping on a pavement in suburban Bandra in Mumbai