Bollywood star Salman Khan was today
acquitted of all charges in the 2002 hit-and-run case by the Bombay High Court which set aside the sessions court's May order sentencing him to a five-year imprisonment. Following is the chronology of events.
2002
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September 28: Salman Khan's white Toyata Land Cruiser crashes into the pavements near American Express Bakery at Hill Road at Bandra, killing one person and injuring four others.
Salman's blood samples taken.
He is arrested by Bandra police station, granted bail
Salman booked under provisions of IPC, Motor Vehicles
Act, 1988 and Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949
October 2002: Mumcbai Police invoke section 302-II of
IPC, which is culpable homicide not
Amounting to murder which attracts a
Punishment of jail term of 10 years.
October 7 - Salman Khan surrenders before Bandra police
Station
October 21 - Mumbai Police files chargesheet in Bandra
Magistrate court
October 24 - Salman Khan granted bail
2003
March - Salman Khan challenges application of 302-II in
Mumbai Sessions court
May - Sessions court rejects the plea, asks Magistrate
Court to frame charges
June - Salman Khan moves Bombay High Court, which
Opines that section 302-II not application in
The case
October- Maharashtra Government challenges Bombay HC
Order in Supreme Court
December - SC rules that the magistrate court may decide whether 302-II could be applied.
2006
October - Magistrate court frame charges against Salman
Khan
2007
May - Chemical analysis report suggests Salman Khan
Was drunk
October 3 - Police bodyguard Ravindra Patil, who filed
The first FIR dies of TB
2011
October - Prosecution demands Salman Khan must be tried
Under harsher sections
2012
March 25 - Prosecution closes evidence after examining
24 witnesses
2013
December 23 - Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate V
S Patil slaps the charge of 'culpable homicide
Not amounting to murder' on the actor and
Referred the case to sessions court for trial as
Magistrate's court does not have powers to try
This offence.
2014
November 24 - Sessions court starts retrial of Salman Khan.
2015
March 27 - Salman Khan's statement recorded under section
313 Cr.PC by Additional Sessions Judge D W
Deshpande
March 28 - Salman Khan's family driver Ashok Singh owns
Up responsibility of accident by giving
Testimony in trial court.
April 9 - Special Public Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat rests
Case
April 20 - Defence counsel Shrikant Shivade rests case
April 21 - Additional Sessions Judge D W Deshpande
Announces that it would pronounce verdict
On May 6
May 6 - Mumbai sessions court sentences Salman Khan
To five years rigorous imprisonment, actor
Gets two day interim bail by Bombay High
Court.
May 8 - Bombay High Court admits plea against
Conviction, posts hearing on June 15
September 7- HC rejects paper book, orders it to be
Prepared afresh
September 21- Justice A R Joshi commences daily hearing
Of Salman Khan appeal
November 17 - Defence counsel Amit Desai wraps up its
Case
November 30 - Court rejects defence plea to examine
Kamaal Khan as court witness
December 3 - Government pleader and chief public
Prosecutor Sandeep Shinde wraps up case
December 4 - Judge A R Joshi posts appeal for dictation
Of verdict from December 7
December 7 - Judge begins dictation of verdict.
December 10 - Salman acquitted of all charges in the case.
