Salman Khan Hit & Run Case- lawyer questions value of bodyguard’s evidence

Bollywood’s Dabangg Salman Khan is at present out on bail, in the Hit & Run case. The actor had filed an appeal in the High Court against the sentence passed on him by a trial court. Bajrangi Bhaijaan’s lawyer Amit Desai today questioned the legal value of the evidence about Khan driving his car under the influence of liquor.

The evidence was given by Ravindra Patil the then police bodyguard of Salman, who passed away in 2007.

Amit Desai argued, “Such a piece of evidence should be discarded as it did not have any evidential value. Patil had lodged FIR on the day of the mishap but didn’t mention that Salman was driving and was drunk. He mentioned this only two days later before the magistrate when he said Salman had taken drinks on that evening, and he had asked the actor to drive slow. So as Patil had kept silent while lodging the FIR his statements does not have any evidential value.”

Salman Khan was held guilty of ramming his car into a bakery in Bandra on September 28, 2002, killing one person and injuring four others who were sleeping outside on the pavement.