Salman Khan is sentenced to five years in jail over the 2002 hit-and-run case

#SalmanKhan #Bollywood #Mumbai #SalmanVerdict At long last Bollywood superstar 49-year-old Salman Khan has been sentenced to five years in jail on a hit-and-run case of 2002 in which he had crashed his car into a group of pavement dwellers rusting in the death of one man.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 6 May 2015.

The judge has convicted the superstar of culpable homicide over the hit-and-run. The incident happened at the end of a night out drinking in Mumbai in 2002. The superstar had blamed his driver for the crash and faced a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.
However, during the trial, which began last year after several legal hold-ups, witnesses had claimed that the star himself was at the wheel when his Toyota Land Cruiser mounted the pavement and ploughed into five homeless men as they slept.
It seems one of the witnesses had said - "Salman was so drunk he fell. He stood but he fell again and then he ... ran away."
Salman Khan had earlier been convicted of killing an endangered Indian gazelle in 1998. Moreover, he had reportedly assaulted Aishwarya Rai, a Bollywood actress and former Miss World, after their relationship broke down.
Incidentally, because of this conviction, Bollywood could now lose more than $31m (£20m) because they might have to cancel the blockbusters in which Salman Khan was due to appear in.

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