New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday issued a notice to actor Salman Khan seeking his response on appeals filed by the Maharashtra government and the widow and son of the victim in the 2002 hit-and-run case in which one person was killed.
“It will be much better if he gets acquittal from this court. It will save him from all the repercussions and his stand will be vindicated,” said a bench of Justices J.S. Khehar and C. Nagappan while seeking Salman Khan’s reply in six weeks.
Was salman shielding driver: A-G
Earlier, the Supreme Court Bench heard Attorney-General Mukul Rohatgi for Maharashtra government, senior counsel Kapil Sibal for Salman Khan and counsel P.B. Suresh and Vipin Nair for the victim’s family seeking compensation.
Salman Khan’s acquittal in the case is a miscarriage of justice, Mr. Rohatgi argued. He said the judgment acquitting the accused was “perverse” and travesty of justice.
He said Salman Khan had consumed liquor and was drunk, he was driving the Land Cruiser which killed a person sleeping on the pavement.
Mr Rohatgi said the theory that the car was being driven by Mr Khan’s driver, who surfaced after 13 years, should be discarded. If it was true that his driver alone was on the wheels it would mean that Salman Khan had been shielding the accused.
