Actor Salman Khan at Roy Promotions on BB8 Photos
Silverscreen.in Copyrighted PhotosThe actor has been convicted of culpable homicide by Judge D W Deshpande of a Mumbai sessions court. The judge held the 49-year-old actor guilty of “all charges”, including driving under influence of liquor and not possessing a driving licence in the case in which he reportedly lost control of his car and ran over five people sleeping on a Mumbai street.
“You were driving the car. You were under the influence of alcohol”, the judge, reportedly, told Salman Khan.
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While his defense team went on the offensive, claiming that it was Salman’s driver who was in control of the car at the time, several witnesses, including a constable attached to his protection detail, said so otherwise. The murky details surrounding the case and the defense’s arguments protracted the legal suit for thirteen years. Today afternoon though, the court in Mumbai sentenced Salman to prison.
Legal experts expect Salman Khan to appeal against the verdict. Though the actor has spent a week in 2006 for hunting endangered animals; it did little to endanger his reputation. The industry though is rife with speculations that his star will be on the wane if the charges do stick and his efforts to secure freedom do not bear fruit.