Docs missing in paper-book, Salman’s lawyer tells High Court

Adding a new twist in the hearing of the appeal filed by actor Salman Khan in the Bombay High Court against his five-year sentence in the 2002 hit-and-run case, his lawyer on Tuesday claimed that certain documents were missing from the ‘paper-book’.

Paper-book is <g data-gr-id="14">compilation</g> of evidence, documents, prepared by the court registry and submitted to both the sides before the appeal is heard.

The prosecution and the defence had heated arguments over the issue on Tuesday.

An application was filed by senior counsel Amit Desai, Khan’s lawyer, before Justice AR Joshi alleging 

that some documents pertaining to the defence were not found in the paper-book, and therefore, the defence couldn’t argue. Among other things, the paper-book did not have a document pertaining to the media interview given by Ravindra Patil, a policeman who was then Salman's bodyguard and who was a witness to the accident.