SEPT 6- A sessions court on Thursday reserved its order on the three applications that have been filed in the Salman Khan’s hit-and-run case.
The first application pertains to Advocate Abha Singh wanting to intervene in the trial. The second application is of Abha Singh again in which she is asking for the miscellaneous application that she had filed before the Bandra magistrate ourt to be brought forth to sessions and clubbed with the Salman Khans hit-and-run case. This is Salman Khan’s application for fair media coverage.
Abha Singh, represented by her son Aditya Pratap, told the court that as a private person who is not concerned with the criminal case, she still has a right to intervene. She can make written submissions to the public prosecutor and assist him in his work.
Judge SD Deshpande while hearing the arguments said that the scope of the intervener is limited in a criminal trial to written notes of argument and not more than that.
However Salman Khan’s lawyer Shrikant Shivde alleged that Abha Singh is only using the platform to defame Salman. The advocate has already resolved that Salman is guilty and has an adverse interest in his prosecution.
“They are not interested in justice. They have been giving number of interviews to media. If this application is allowed, then 100 people will come in. Today we should have been examining witness, but we are wasting time on this application.” Shivde told the court. He pressed on his argument that if Abha Singh was allowed in the trial to intervene, then “Salman will be denied a fair trial”
Abha Singh had filed a miscellaneous application last year before the bandra court allegeding that Salman Khan’s case has been delayed with the help of police who have not been getting witnesses to the court. Singh wanted this application being hear before the Bandra court to be clubbed with the sessions court trial to see to it that no delay happens in the present trial. However Shivde argued that the miscellaneous application is against policemen and so it does not need to be clubbed with the present trial.
About the media coverage, shivde told the court, “We do not want an in camera trial but since beginning, an attempt is being made to pollute the mind of the public.” The court has kept Sept 24 as the date for passing an order in all these three applications.
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