Bandra cops to submit ‘Bribery Complaint’ on Salman Khan case

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan, is once again back in the court for the retrial of his 2002 Hit & Run Case.  Today the  Bandra police will submit their report in court today on a Bribery complaint by a witness.

The witness Muslim Niyamat Sheikh  one of the four people injured when the actor’s car rammed into the American Express Bakery in Bandra, has alleged that his former lawyer Mukesh Pandey offered him a bribe of Rs. 5 lakh to reverse his testimony in the case.

The lawyer Pandey is said to have been instrumental in helping the victims, including Sheikh, get compensation. He also reportedly helped them open bank accounts and stood guarantee for them.

As per sources,  Sheikh in his complaint on May 7, had alleged that he had received two phone calls. He was offered the money in the first one, and he didn’t answer the second. The court then ordered the Bandra police to submit a report in the next hearing, which is today. Based on the report, the court will decide whether to admit the plaint. 

Sources further added that, the police has taken Pandey’s statement in which he has denied the accusation. However, he accepted that several calls were exchanged between him and Sheikh. He told cops that since Sheikh stays in UP, he calls him up before every hearing. Police had traced the number from which Sheikh received the calls to Pandey, and call records prove there was an exchange of calls. But since there are no recordings of the conversation, proving the allegation would be difficult, and Pandey would likely get a clean chit.
 

 Advocate Mukesh Pandey in his defense said , “Muslim is lying. There was no call made from my phone to his number on the day he is claiming an unknown person called. In fact, he was the one to call me every now then, asking, ‘Sir, main phans toh nahi jaunga naa case mein’. I remember one day I had 13 missed calls from him. I have been his lawyer for 10 years. How can he make such claims? I have recorded my statement with the police, along with some documents.”

Well which of them is telling the truth is a real dilemma.