Bombay high court begins dictating judgment in salman khan hit and run case

The defense has argued that Ashok Singh was not a "got up witness", and the trial court had wrongly discarded his evidence. He was the one who was driving the car and not Khan at

the time of the accident. The Bombay high court on Monday started dictating its order in the appeal filed by actor Salman Khan, challenging his conviction and five year sentence imposed on

him in May, by a sessions court in the 2002, hit and run case in which one person died and four others were injured. Justice AR Joshi on the first day recorded the facts of the case and

dealt with the evidence of injured witness relied by the prosecution to prove its case that Khan was at the drivers seat at the time of accident. However, he did not gave any reasons on the

whether he accepted the evidence or not. The defense has argued that Ashok Singh was not a "got up witness", and the trial court had wrongly discarded his evidence. He was the one

who was driving the car and not Khan at the time of the accident. Singh had appeared as a defence witness after the statement of Khan was recorded under section 313 of Criminal Procedure

Code by the trial court. It has also been argued that the FIR filed by deceased police constable Ravindra Patil does not mention about alcohol and there have been subsequent improvements in

his supplementary statement. The prosecution though has argued that the conviction has been correct and the evidence adduced before the trial court has been properly appreciated by the trial

court. The dictation of the judgment will continue on Tuesday.