Mumbai, Nov 18: A local court today exempted film actor Salman Khan from appearance in a drunken driving case and deferred to December 11 the trial in which he is facing the charge of killing one person and injuring four others.
On a plea made by Salman's lawyer Dipesh Mehta that the actor had gone out of town, Magistrate S Y Sishode exempted him for the day.
The court was informed that the supreme court had decided to hear on December two Maharashtra government's appeal challenging a Mumbai High Court order which dropped the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder framed against the actor for killing one person and injuring four in the hit-and-run case.
The magistrate was urged to defer the trial until then. Accordingly, the court deferred the trial to December 11 pending the Supreme Court ruling on the point of law to decide whether the offence allegedly committed by the actor fell within the scope of Section 304 (2) IPC, culpable homicide not amounting to murder which attracts ten years jail term.
On October six, a magistrate framed ten charges against Salman, a year after he killed one person and injured four by ramming his vehicle into a bakery.
The actor pleaded not guilty to all the charges framed against him under provisions of IPC, motor vehicles act and Bombay Prohibition Act and said he was ready to face trial.
Bureau Report