Verdict in Salman Khan hit-&-run case on May 6

Mumbai, April 21

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The fate of Bollywood actor Salman Khan would be decided on May 6 when a sessions court will give its verdict in the hit-and-run case in which he is charged with killing one person and injuring four by ramming his car into a bakery shop in suburban Bandra 13 years ago.

Judge DW Deshpande today declared the date of the verdict, a day after the prosecution and defence concluded arguments in the trial which was conducted afresh after a magistrate added the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and referred the case to the sessions court.

The culpable homicide offence, which provides for punishment up to 10 years, is triable by a sessions court and not by a magistrate. Earlier, the magistrate was trying Khan for rash and negligent driving, an offence under IPC which attracts punishment upto two years.

Khan (49) pleaded he was not driving the car at the time of mishap and that his driver Ashok Singh was behind the wheel. — PTI