Abhijeet sings Salman's song, says 'roads are meant for cars and dogs'

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Last Updated : May 06 2015 | 6:57 PM IST

Hours after a Mumbai sessions court handed out a five-year jail term to Bollywood actor Salman Khan, the superstar's fan and playback singer Abhijeet on Wednesday ignited outrage after tweeting that roads are meant for cars and dogs and not for people to sleep on them.

"Kutta rd pe soyega kutte ki maut marega, roads garib ke baap ki nahi hai I ws homles an year nvr slept on rd," Abhijeet said.

"Roads are meant for cars and dogs not for people sleeping on them," he added.

Meanhwile, celebrity jewellery designer and actor Zayed Khan's sister Farah Ali Khan also ranted about how punishing Salman was equivalent to penalising a train driver because someone decided to cross the tracks.

"No one should be sleeping on the road or footpath. It is dangerous to do that just like it is dangerous to cross tracks," said Farah.

"It's like penalising a train driver because someone decided to cross the tracks and got killed in the bargain," she added.

The jewellery designer, however, later clarified that her tweet was meant to mock the government and not the poor people.

"My ppl not sleeping on the road tweet is meant to mock the govt not d poor ppl Bec every govt is responsible to provide housing to its ppl. And I never said that Salman was faultless. I said 5 yrs is very harsh punishment. He should get less Bec he is a good citizen otherwise," she asserted.

A Mumbai session's court found Salman Khan guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced him to five years imprisonment today in connection with the 2002 hit-and-run case, where he ran over a homeless person and injured four others.

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First Published: May 06 2015 | 6:42 PM IST

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