A Mumbai sessions court will on June 10 deliver its verdict on actor Salman Khan's appeal against a magistrate's order for his retrial in the 2002 hit-and-run case under stringent charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
Four persons were killed and another one was injured when a car lost its control and ran over them in Indiranagar area in Bangalore on Saturday morning.The victims included three morning joggers and a cyclist, they said, adding that the driver of the car fled the scene, leaving the vehicle behind.A driving license issued in the name of Karthik Somaiah was found in the car, they said.
Alleging that "evidence had been manufactured to falsely implicate him" in the 2002 hit-and-run case, Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Friday told the trial court in Mumbai.
It would be a crucial test for the 49-year-old actor as he gets an opportunity to give his version about the mishap.
A magistrate's court in Mumbai refused bail to corporate lawyer Janhavi Gadkar, accused of ramming her car into a taxi while driving under the influence of alcohol.
The fresh trial in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan would begin on March 26, with a sessions court in Mumbai completing the necessary formalities and admitting documents given by the prosecution.
A witness in the hit-and-run case allegedly involving Salman Khan told the trial court on Thursday that he had seen the actor in the driver's seat in a stationary car in the parking slot of a hotel in suburban Juhu on the same night when his vehicle met with an accident.
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A sessions court on Monday held that the offence of 'culpable homicide not amounting to murder' under the Indian Penal Code had been made out against Bollywood actor Salman Khan in a 2002 hit-and-run case and rejected his appeal challenging a Magistrate's order invoking this charge.
The prosecution on Wednesday rejected Bollywood star Salman Khan's defence that it was his driver Ashok Singh who was driving his vehicle at the time of the 2002 mishap, saying it appears to be a "brought up" witness whose contention was belated and introduced at the fag end of the trial.
A doctor on Thursday told a local court hearing the hit-and-run case allegedly involving super star Salman Khan that the actor smelt of alcohol when he was brought for a blood test soon after the incident though during clinical examination the same day it appeared he was not under the influence of liquor.
Sources privy to the proceedings said the board pulled up the parents of the boy, who has just turned major, saying they had promoted his habit of driving even when he was minor.
The businessman has been charged of abetment leading to culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The sessions court in Mumbai on Saturday allowed the prosecution in the 2002 hit-and-run case to rely upon the statement of Ravindra Patil
39-year-old Vinit Sancheti's life was snuffed out on January 25 by an errant driver. This is an appeal to find his killer.
Sambia Sohrab, son of Trinamool Congress leader Mohammed Sohrab, was arrested on late Saturday night by the Kolkata police for allegedly mowing down Indian Air Force officer Corporal Abhimanyu Gaud with his luxury SUV during a rehearsal of the Republic Day parade in Kolkata.
Hit by a car while cycling, environmental activist Sunita Narain on Monday said cyclists in Indian cities are being edged out systematically to make way for cars.
Drivers of commercial vehicles, including trucks and tankers, stopped work in several states on Monday and blocked roads at some places to protest against the provision in the new penal law regarding hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
'The terrorists are using better technology to secure their communication.' 'It does appear that excessive reliance on technology led to a weakening of human intelligence.'
Judge D W Deshpande said, "I will pronounce the verdict on May 6," at 11.15 am and asked Salman to be present on that day.
Alistair Pereira, who was convicted for mowing down seven persons in 2006, on Friday surrendered before the Mumbai police, a day after a trial court in Mumbai issued arrest warrant against him.
The JJB said in its order that the accused is in no manner lacking in mental and physical capacity to commit the alleged offence.
The Delhi police on Thursday pleaded with a court to cancel the bail given by a juvenile justice board to a teenager who had allegedly run over a 32-year-old man with his father's Mercedes leading to his death, saying the relief was granted wrongly.
'The jungles of Doda covers about 250 km.' 'Sleeper cells are providing active help to the terrorists.' 'The terrain and situation is such that it is not possible to keep track of every inch.'
All the five injured have been admitted to JJ Hospital, where their condition is said to be stable.
The newly enacted laws are -- the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Act
A driver who accidentally hits a person and subsequently informs the police or takes the victim to the nearest hospital will not be prosecuted under the stringent provisions of the recently enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), a senior government functionary said on Tuesday.
The Bombay high court ruled that the actor can't be convicted on the basis of evidence produced in the 2002 case.
In a case of reckless driving, a girl, "racing" with another car, allegedly hit a two-wheeler in a high security area in Chandigarh killing a youth and his minor cousin and was later arrested. The incident took place at Sector-3, at a spot close to the residences of chief ministers of both Punjab and Haryana in Chandigarh, late on Tuesday night.
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Arshia Joshi lost her life in a tragic car accident in Pennsylvania on March 21, the Consulate General of India in New York said in a post on X on Saturday.
In his statement, the star said that a false case has been registered against him and said that he wasn't drunk when the accident took place and neither did he run away from the spot.
'The government never asked any transport association before making this law on hit and run cases.' 'MPs only clapped to Amit Shah's new law and never questioned him about this law.' 'Are these MPs not bothered about the lives of drivers?'
Petrol pumps in many cities witnessed long queues on Tuesday as people came to fill up their vehicle tanks fearing shortage of fuel amid the protest by truck drivers against a provision in the new penal law on hit-and-run accident cases involving motorists.
A group of lawyers, including senior advocate Harish Salve and Bar Council of India chairperson Manan Kumar Mishra, has written to the Chief Justice of India, alleging that a "vested interest group" is trying to put pressure on the judiciary and defame courts "on the basis of frivolous logic and stale political agendas".
A manager of liquor bar in Juhu identified Salman Khan on Monday in a Mumbai court, saying the actor had come to the restaurant with friends hours before his car was involved in an accident in 2002, but said he was not sure whether the Bollywood actor had taken drinks.
The high court had sentenced him to three years imprisonment.
Taking heed of the lapses, the Additional Commissioner of Police (crime) KMM Prasanna has issued a circular, advising its men to follow legal procedures while probing accident cases to avoid situations like the Salman Khan case.
Sharma, mother of three teenaged boys, was hurled at least 30 feet down the street and landed in front of a neighbour's home.
A sessions court on Monday deferred till June 24 its order on an appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan against a magistrate's ruling invoking charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the 2002 hit-run-case involving him.
