Court disallows top actor to sell his ‘hit-and-run’ car

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The Bandra Metropolitan court rejected an application sent by Salman Khan to sell his Toyota Land Cruiser car that was involved in a hit-and-run accident on September 28, 2002 killed a 70 year old woman and injured four others. The reason cited was that the case and trial is still not over and the car serves as evidence.
The car had rammed into a bakery in the suburbs of Bandra at night. The victims were sleeping on the pavement at the time. The court framed charges against Khan for culpable homicide not amounting to murder since it was an unintentional accident. The car belonged to his brother Sohail Khan who was not with him at the time. His driver was said to be behind the wheel then. The victim was sleeping on the roadside, covered in a black rag that the driver mistook to be a black polythene bag in the dim night light and ran over her and a few others, injuring them seriously.The victim’s family at first harassed the actor for compensation which he declined after he learnt that the old lady was disowned by the family.
The trial started in 2005 and still continues.

(Based on Timesofindia.indiatimes.com)