Just in: Salman Khan will not have to be present in the High Court for this bail hearing tomorrow. Supreme Court lawyer and a former Solicitor General of India, Harish Salve had framed his appeal for interim bail yesterday. Salve will also be appearing in court on behalf of the actor tomorrow when his interim bail ends.


Salman was sentenced to five years in jail in the 2002 hit-and-run case which had gripped the nation's attention and sparked a fierce debate on social media. The popular actor -- who has starred in some of Bollywood's most successful films -- however, escaped being sent to jail after the Bombay high court granted him interim bail till May 8, barely a few hours after the sessions court handed him the five-year term.


Sessions court judge DW Deshpande said all the charges against the star, including culpable homicide not amounting to murder, had been proved, 12 years after the actor drove into a Mumbai pavement killing a homeless man after a night out drinking. The judge said 49-year-old Khan was driving the car at the time of the accident and the defence's contention that his driver Ashok Singh was at the wheel was not probable.