The Mumbai police have issued a circular to all police stations in the city, highlighting the lapses in the investigations in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan, in which he has been acquitted by the Bombay high court.
This is apparently done to prevent the embarrassment of losing a case, especially where high-profile personalities are involved. “On January 4, a circular (in this regard) was sent to all police stations in the city,” a senior official attached with the Mumbai police said.
“This is to prevent the embarrassment which the police faced following the Salman Khan case,” he said.
The circular mentions 16 lapses among the several procedural lapses of the police in the case, which the High Court had mentioned in its judgement.
The Bombay high court had acquitted the 50-year-old actor of all charges in the hit-and-run case. The Maharashtra government has decided to file an appeal against the High Court verdict in the Supreme Court.
HC gives Salman two more weeks to furnish sureties
The Bombay high court on Tuesday granted two weeks notre to actor Salman Khan to furnish sureties as directed by it while acquitting him in the 2002 hit-and-run case.
On December 10, Justice AR Joshi of the High Court had acquitted Salman and setting aside the trial court’s order convicting the actor and sentencing him to five years in jail, for allegedly driving his car under the influence of alcohol and running over people sleeping on the footpath in suburban Bandra in 2002. One person lost his life in the incident.