Mumbai: An Indian court on Monday adjourned the start of Bollywood star Salman Khan’s appeal over a five-year sentence for a deadly hit-and-run at the request of the actor’s lawyers, reports said.
The Bombay High Court deferred the hearing until July 20 to give time for documents relating to the 2002 incident to be translated, according to the Press Trust of India.
Khan’s lawyer sought adjournment of the hearing until July 27 as the actor’s legal team would be busy in a Jodhpur court in connection with another case involving the actor on July 20. However, the HC did not grant a longer date as sought by the actor’s lawyer and deferred the matter by a week.
The 49-year-old actor did not come to the court on Monday as he is on bail. His sister, Alvira, who normally comes for every hearing, was also not present.
The HC had on May 8 stayed the execution of the five-year sentence awarded to Khan in the 13-year-old case and granted him bail while admitting his appeal.
Khan was found guilty on May 6 of killing a homeless man with his SUV after a night out drinking in an upmarket bar in Mumbai 13 years ago.
The sentence was later suspended, pending an appeal, and Khan - the star of more than 100 films and television shows — was released on bail.
