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Salman Khan to face trial for culpable homicide in hit-and-run case

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JULY 19- Bollywood actor Salman Khan is in a Mumbai session court to face trial for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and not death by negligence in the 2002 Mumbai hit-and run-case.

One person was killed and four were injured in the accident.

Salman will be tried under Section 304 (ii) of the IPC in Mumbai sessions court from Friday. And if convicted, he faces up to 10 years in jail.

SALMAN KHANThe actor was earlier tried for a lesser offence under Section 304-A of the IPC, with a maximum punishment of two years in jail.

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A Bandra metropolitan court, which was hearing the case since 2006, recently transferred it to a sessions court.

Salman had appealed against the order but the plea was rejected.

Public Prosecutor Shankar Erande, opposing the appeal, said the magistrate had rightly invoked charges of culpable homicide. He argued that a police bodyguard (now deceased) was accompanying the actor in the vehicle at the time of the accident and had warned him not to drive rashly. But the actor did not listen, Erande contended.

The prosecutor submitted Khan was drunk and knew his act of rash driving, particularly after drinks, might result in death of people in accident.
He also said the actor was fully aware that people slept on the footpaths in the locality.

On September 28, 2002, a Land Cruiser which Salman was allegedly driving in an inebriated state rammed into a bakery in Bandra, killing one and injuring four others sleeping on the pavement.

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