New Delhi: Bollywood actor Salman Khan on Wednesday asserted in the Supreme Court that he was falsely implicated and framed by the Maharashtra government in the 2002 car hit-and-run case in which one person died.
While the trial court sentenced him to undergo five-year imprisonment, the Bombay High Court acquitted him.
In an affidavit filed in response to Maharashtra government’s appeal against the High Court order acquitting him, Salman said he was not driving the car at the time of the accident and only his driver Ashok Singh was driving the car.
Seeking dismissal of the appeal, he said that Ashok Singh had called the police control room after the accident and even went to the police station to record his statement, alleging that the police refused to record it saying they were under pressure to arrest the actor.
Salman said there were two other people in the car besides his bodyguard Ravindra Patil and himself — his driver Ashok Singh and singer Kamaal Khan, whose testimony was never recorded. Salman has alleged that even when the case came to the HC, the prosecution claimed that Kamaal did not reply to summons.
