In a major setback to actor Salman Khan, two eyewitnesses in the 2002 hit-and-run case said that they saw him getting out of his car and fleeing after he had run over a group of people sleeping on the pavement in Mumbai's suburban Bandra killing one and injuring four.
A court in Mumbai has rejected the plea of actor Salman Khan -- seeking permission to sell his Toyota Land Cruiser car -- which he was driving during the hit-and-run case in 2002 in which one person was killed and four others sustained injuries. The court on Monday rejected the application as the car is evidence in the case and the trial is not over yet, said a police officer.
The Bombay high court on Wednesday admitted appeals filed by the Maharashtra government and Alistair Pereira, the convict in a hit-and-run case, challening the lower court's verdict in the case, and posted the hearing to June 28.
Mumbai police on Tuesday arrested Mihir Shah, two days after the 24-year-old allegedly rammed his BMW car into a two-wheeler, killing a woman and leaving her husband injured.
On January 12, the Supreme Court upheld the three year jail term awarded to the Mumbai-based businessman for running over seven persons sleeping on the pavement. However, the court said the punishment for the "despicable aggravated offence" was "too meagre".
This is the third time eyewitness Ravindra Patil has failed to appear.
Salman Khan, who arrived in court on Wednesday in connection to the 2002 hit-and-run case, has tested positive for alcohol content in his blood at the time of accident.
The prosecution on Thursday sought conviction of Bollywood superstar Salman Khan on the charge of culpable homicide
Bollywood actor Salman Khan is at the Mumbai Sessions Court which is set to resume hearing of a case related to a threat complaint made by one of the eyewitnesses in the 2002 hit-and-run case allegedly involving the actor.
Three people were reportedly injured in the accident
He denied carrying the blood vials in an iron container; said he took them in an envelope.
The fate of Sanjeev Nanda, prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run incident, is likely to be decided on Tuesday by a Delhi court that is set to deliver its verdict in the case in which six persons, including three cops, were killed in 1999. After several twists and turns in the case that spanned almost nine years, Additional Sessions Judge Vinod Kumar had on August 26 reserved his verdict in the case.
The hit-and-run case allegedly involving the teenaged son of a businessman in Chennai took a new turn as a driver of his company, who surrendered claiming responsibility for the mishap that took three lives, went missing.
A local court on Wednesday granted permission to the Gurgaon police to carry out the identification parade of Suraj Sehrawat, main accused in the BMW hit-and-run case in which two persons were killed.
The files pertaining names and the total number of counsels, solicitors, advocates and legal advisors, public prosecutors appointed by the state in the hit-and-run case were destroyed in the Mantralaya blaze.
The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and US Marshall's are working toward arresting 25-year-old Indian-origin man, Pawanjit Singh, on alleged homicide charges in a hit-and-run case that killed a 28-year-old woman. The police believe that the suspect fled to India on March 26 from the San Francisco Bay Area, northern California.
Actor Salman Khan on Wednesday moved the Supreme Court, saying he should be heard before any hearing on the Maharashtra government's petition challenging his acquittal in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
They said that the 16-year-old boy had told the police during interrogation that he was driving the Mercedes Benz when he lost control of the vehicle and collided with a two-wheeler first before running over 11 people sleeping on the pavement. Two persons were killed on the spot while the motorcyclist succumbed to injuries later. Nine others were injured in the incident.
The four are key witnesses in the 2002 hit-and-run case
Mihir Shah, the prime accused in the Mumbai BMW hit-and-run case and son of a Shiv Sena politician, has told the police he was driving the car at the time of the crash which killed a woman and injured her husband, officials said on Wednesday citing probe carried out so far.
A court in Mumbai on Wednesday remanded Mihir Shah, the prime accused in the BMW hit-and-run case, in police custody till July 16.
The son of a corporate honcho was arrested in a hit-and-run case in which a motorcyclist was seriously wounded, while a minor girl was killed and three others injured in two separate road accidents in south Mumbai, police said on Tuesday.
Police arrested two persons after a woman travelling on a scooter with her husband was fatally knocked down allegedly by a BMW car in Mumbai's Worli area in the early hours of Sunday, an official said.
In a major setback to Bollywood actor Salman Khan, a magistrate's court in Mumbai on Thursday accepted the plea of the Maharashtra government that he should be tried under section 304 (II) of Indian Penal Code (culpable homicide not amounting to order), a graver offence, in the 2002 hit and run case.
Hearing of the 2002 hit-and-run case involving Salman Khan was on Monday deferred to April 8 by a sessions court which accepted his lawyer's prayer for time to file a document even as the actor did not make a personal appearance.
The Delhi High Court will give its verdict on Monday in the BMW hit-and-run case, in which a trial court had convicted and sentenced businessman Sanjeev Nanda to five years imprisonment.Justice Kailash Gambhir, who had reserved the judgment in May, would pass the verdict on the petitions filed by three convicts, including Nanda. Besides Nanda, the court had also convicted Rajiv Gupta and Bhola Nath, and sentenced them to one year and six months in jail, respectively.
Sanjeev Nanda, convicted in the BMW hit-and-run case, on Friday got a reprieve from the Supreme Court which refused to enhance the quantum of punishment of two years already undergone by him and directed him to do community service for two years.
According to the victim's family members, the car allegedly hit his cycle from behind and it was dragged on the road for several metres.
Prasad said the Narendra Modi government was working to resolve the OROP issue and will do it.
Two days after the Supreme Court verdict in the 2006 hit-and-run case, Alistair Pereira, whose bail was cancelled, is yet to surrender before the authorities in Mumbai.
Suraj Singh Sherawat, son of the owner of the BMW car involved in a hit-and-run case on May 5, surrendered on Tuesday in a court in Gurgoan and was released on bail.
The trial in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan failed to start on Wednesday as none of the witnesses made an appearance at the sessions court.
The prosecution in the 2002 hit-and-run case allegedly involving Bollywood star Salman Khan on Friday filed an application in the trial court seeking a direction to him to produce his driving licence.
He evaded arrest in the US in a 2005 hit-and-run case. A court has now issued a warrant.
"Sambia has been lying to us since day one... We are cross checking them with Johnny and Sonu's statements," the officer said.
Kalim Mohammed Iqbal, one of the four persons injured in the incident, told the court that he had seen Salman climb out of the vehicle after the accident and leave the spot.
Mumbai Police succeeded in hunting down Mihir Shah, accused in the BMW hit-and-run case and son of a Shiv Sena politician, after two days of painstaking probe when his friend made the mistake of switching on his mobile phone only for 15 minutes.
The hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan did not commence on Monday as his lawyer could not come to court due to ill-health, but a key witness made an oral request for police protection which the judge said he would consider after a written submission is made.
Two cops were killed in a terrorist hit-and-run attack on the Jammu and Kashmir police outside the district court complex in south Kashmir Pulwama town on Monday afternoon.
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