Salman Khans hit and run case to be reopened

One person died and four others were injured after Salman Khan’s vehicle had slammed into the pavement outside a bakery in suburban Mumbai in September 2002. Last month, Public prosecutor A A Mane pointed out that the bail procedure post acquittal has to be completed before the trial court and Justice Sadhna Jadhav of the Bombay HC who presided over Salman’s appeal for more time, complied with the prosecutor and stated, ” In normal circumstances, the procedure has to be completed before the trial Court.

The Maharashtra government has made a decision to appeal against the High court judgement in Supreme court. The police have come across 16 lacunae for which the investigating officers of the case are responsible and have circulated their findings in an internal notification to all police stations across the city, informing them on how flawless investigations should be carried out. dna is in possession of this list of findings.

On December 10, 2015, in a hard-hitting judgment, the Bombay High Court acquitted him of all charges and quashed the lower court verdict.

Also mentioned was the two-day delay in sending the collected blood samples to the forensic sciences laboratory on September 30. Therefore, the court suspected that the samples could have been tampered or not stored properly. However, the blood sample of the deceased was taken at the Bhabha Hospital.

The force cited various aspects like the way evidence was collected and tendered, the alterations of FIR, chain of custody of blood samples and the way witnesses were handled.

Another lapse pertained to 6 ml blood drawn from Khan in two containers, though the lab received only 4 ml blood. No charge under section 66 (i) (b) of the Bombay Prohibition Act was framed.

The defence presented bursting of a tyre as the cause of the accident. And singer Kamaal Khan was not summoned despite his address being available with the police.