The Bombay high court verdict says there’s not enough evidence to prove actor Salman Khan was inebriated and driving the Toyota Land Cruiser.
Observing that “strong suspicion of guilt cannot be used to hold a person guilty”, the Bombay High Court on Thursday acquitted actor Salman Khan in a 13-year-old hit-and-run case that killed one and injured four.
But it has left a 13-year-old mystery unresolved: Who, then, was behind the wheel?
The prosecution had failed to prove “beyond reasonable doubt” that the actor was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident and was drunk, the judge ruled.
Overturning the order of a lower court, which had in May convicted the actor under charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced him to a jail term of five years, Justice A R Joshi said this was “not a case where prosecution has successfully established its case of all its charges”.
As the court pronounced that he was “acquitted of all charges and the order passed by the sessions court stands quashed and set aside”, the actor broke down.
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