Salman Khan Hit and run case verdict, in Mumbai

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Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was today convicted by a Mumbai sessions court of culpable homicide in the 2002 hit-and-run case and has been sentenced to 5 years in jail. Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was today sentenced by a sessions court to five years’ rigorous imprisonment in the 2002 hit-and-run case, but he swiftly moved the Bombay High Court which granted him interim bail till May 8 to hear his appeal against conviction. Justice Abhay Thipsay granted interim bail to the actor on the ground that the accused had been given only a 2-page operative part of the conviction order and not the full reasoned order by the sessions court. “The urgency in the matter is that the appellant (Salman) who was on bail throughout the trial is likely to be taken into custody today. However, the copy