Maha govt to challenge Salman's acquittal in SC

December 23, 2015 14:11

Just in: Maharashtra government to move Supreme Court against the Bombay High Court verdict acquitting actor Salman Khan in a 13-year-old drunken-driving and hit-and-run incident, in which one person was killed and four others injured.

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'.

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