The twist and turn in the Salman Khan hit and run case are only getting more and more confusing. The 2002 hit-and-run-case of Bollywood’s favourite star Salman Khan, might put him in trouble. A forensic expert confirmed that the alcohol content found in Salman Khan‘s blood was higher than normal.
Salman Khan was made to undergo a test in the 2002 hit-and-run case, according to a chemical analysis expert who testified in a Mumbai Sessions Court on Wednesday. The expert claimed in the court that the alcohol content found in Salman Khan‘s blood was higher than normal.
Experts told court that the permissible level of alcohol content in blood is 30 mg, whereas Salman’s blood contained 62 mg, reports suggest.
The Dabangg Khan was accompanied by his sisters Alvira and Arpita, is reported to have an exceeded limit of alcohol in his blood samples.
In the hit and run case, it is alleged that Salman Khan‘s car rammed into a bakery, killing one and injuring four others in the wake on September 28, 2002. Since then the matter is in court. It went through many ups and downs and this year in June had many witnesses identifying Salman. Later, a few reports of the case went missing creating mass hysteria. They were later found at Bandra Police Station precariously stacked with other reports. Salman was charged with an additional charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder that is liable for a 10-year sentence.
Earlier, the actor was supposed to be present in the court on September 24, 2014, but he was later exempted from personal appearance.
A witness in the case had told the trial court on October 9, 2014 that he had seen the actor in the driver’s seat of his vehicle in a hotel’s parking lot on the same night
The witness, an attendant at the JW Marriott Hotel in suburban Juhu, testified against the actor in the trial court stating that it was Salman who was behind the wheel before the SUV left the hotel.
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A witness in the 2002 hit and run case involving Salman Khan retracted his police statement in a court, saying he had not said that the actor had got down from the driver’s seat of his vehicle and ran away after the accident occurred in suburban Bandra.
“My statement recorded by police that I saw Salman Khan coming out from the driver’s seat and running away from the spot is incorrect,” the witness, Sachin Kadam, a security guard of Neel Sagar Hotel, told Judge D.W. Deshpande.
Neel Sagar Hotel, where Sachin Kadam works, is just opposite to the bakery and laundry where Salman Khan‘s car had met with an accident on September 28, 2002, in which one person was killed and four others injured.
Earlier, the witness had told police in a statement that he had seen the actor getting down from the driver’s seat of his car and going away from the scene of the mishap. Sachin Kadam state that he had only told the police that a big car came and rammed into the shutter of a shop.
Sachin Kadam was confronted with his police statement but he went back on his own words saying he had not told the police about this. However, the witness was unable to say why the police had recorded a false version in his statement.
Public prosecutor Jagannath Kenjralkar told the court that Sachin Kadam should be declared as a hostile witness as he had not supported the prosecution. However, the court has yet to pass order on this plea.
During cross-examination, the witness told Salman Khan‘s lawyer Srikant Shivade that he had not seen the accident as he was on duty on that day at the gate of the restaurant.
Salman Khan too was present in the court along with his sister Alvira Agnihotri and bodyguard Shera.
Another witness, Mohammed Shaikh, who was one of those injured in the mishap, stated, “I saw Salman Khan after I was rescued. There were two more people but I did not recognise them. It was a big white car,” said the witness.
If Salman Khan is proved guilty and charged of culpable homicide not amounting to murder then it would amount to a ten year sentence. Salman Khan had earlier been tried by a magistrate for a lesser offence of causing death by negligence, which entailed an imprisonment of two years.
The case, dragging on for over a decade, had taken a twist earlier this year when the magistrate, after examining seventeen witnesses.
