Salman hit & run case: Prosecution wraps up arguments, asks HC not to show leniency

The prosecution on Thursday wrapped up its arguments before the Bombay high court in the 2002 hit-and-run case, in which actor Salman Khan was convicted and sentenced to five-year jail, and urged the court not to show any leniency to the actor.

The prosecution, while concluding its arguments, asked the court to uphold the sentence awarded to him in May this year by a sessions court for ramming his car into a shop in suburban Bandra killing one person and injuring four others.

The trial court had on May 6 held Salman guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, upholding the police’s case that he was drunk and was driving the car when the incident took place on September 28, 2002. Justice A R Joshi is hearing the actor’s appeal against the conviction.