Bollywood Actor Salman Khan May Face Culpable Homicide Trial In Hit-and Run Case

Bolywood actor Salman Khan faces the possibility of being tried in culpable homicide in decade old hit- and run, a legal source with direct knowledge of the case has said. A local Mambai court ruled on Monday that hit and run case will be tried in the sessions court not the magistrate court where it was being heard earlier. The prosecution had asked for the to be tranferred to the session court as magistrate courts have no jurisdiction to try the cases of culpable homicides. Salman Khan had asked for the revision of that order but the court has rejected that which means the case will be held in sessions court and he could be tried for culpable homicide. The charge carries a masximum penality of 10 myears in jail, Khan was earlier tried for lesser charge of death by negligence which could attract a maximum term of two years jail. The 47-year old actor is accused of running his SUV on the pavement near a bakery in the suburbs of Bandrta Mambai, on September 28, 2001 killing one person and injuring four others.