Lawyer Shrikant Shivade, who is defending Salman Khan in the 2002 accident case that killed one person, argued on Friday that the Indian Penal Code section dealing with culpable homicide not amounting to murder was wrongly applied on the actor.
The Section 304 part II stipulates a maximum punishment of 10 years jail.
According to Shivade, “The live link of the act and the death is [not there].”
“The prosecution has not been able to prove that the death [of the person who was sleeping on the pavement] was caused because of the act,” Shivade argued before Additional Sessions Judge D. W. Deshpande.
During the course of the trial, Shivade had raised questions about the medical tests that were conducted on Khan in five minutes, how his vehicle was examined in 20 minutes, the competency of the chemical analyst and other aspects during his arguments.
On Saturday, Shivade is expected to call into question the statement of former police bodyguard constable Ravindra Patil, who was the first complainant in the accident that took place on September 28, 2002.
Khan’s defence team, in the past, has questioned the inclusion of Patil’s evidence since he died of natural causes some years ago and could not be cross examined.
