<p>The Mumbai sessions court on Monday deferred the hearing on actor Salman Khan’s appeal in the 2002 hit-and-run case till June 24.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Khan had challenged a magistrate’s order directing a retrial in the case under charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Sessions judge U B Hejib was due to deliver his verdict in the matter on Monday.<br /><br />Khan’s advocate Ashok Mundargi had argued that the lower court’s order was “erroneous, bad in law and contrary to the evidence on record.” <br /><br />The magistrate had ordered fresh trial under Section 304 (III) of the IPC, which entails a maximum of 10 years imprisonment. Earlier, Khan was being tried under Section 304A of the IPC, i.e, causing death by negligence which stipulates a maximum of two years in jail.<br /><br />The metropolitan magistrate, after examining 17 witnesses and public prosecutor S Erande’s contention that the prime witness, police bodyguard Ravindra Patil, now dead, had repeatedly warned Khan not to drive rashly and invoked Section 304 (III) of the IPC.<br /><br />Erande further submitted that Khan was drunk at the time of the incident in which one person was killed and four others injured when his SUV ran over some pavement-dwellers in the suburban Bandra in the early hours of September 28, 2002.</p>
<p>The Mumbai sessions court on Monday deferred the hearing on actor Salman Khan’s appeal in the 2002 hit-and-run case till June 24.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Khan had challenged a magistrate’s order directing a retrial in the case under charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder. Sessions judge U B Hejib was due to deliver his verdict in the matter on Monday.<br /><br />Khan’s advocate Ashok Mundargi had argued that the lower court’s order was “erroneous, bad in law and contrary to the evidence on record.” <br /><br />The magistrate had ordered fresh trial under Section 304 (III) of the IPC, which entails a maximum of 10 years imprisonment. Earlier, Khan was being tried under Section 304A of the IPC, i.e, causing death by negligence which stipulates a maximum of two years in jail.<br /><br />The metropolitan magistrate, after examining 17 witnesses and public prosecutor S Erande’s contention that the prime witness, police bodyguard Ravindra Patil, now dead, had repeatedly warned Khan not to drive rashly and invoked Section 304 (III) of the IPC.<br /><br />Erande further submitted that Khan was drunk at the time of the incident in which one person was killed and four others injured when his SUV ran over some pavement-dwellers in the suburban Bandra in the early hours of September 28, 2002.</p>
