Dw Deshpande

Admitting Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's appeal against his five-year prison sentence today, Bombay High Court judge Abhay Thipsay said, "It is not a case where the applicant is likely to abscond and both parties have no objection to hearing an appeal in a fast manner, so the sentence is suspended until an appeal is disposed."

Actor Salman Khan will not go to jail for now in a hit-and-run case - the Bombay High Court suspended his five-year prison sentence today pending an appeal.

Mumbai sessions court judge DW Deshpande, who convicted actor Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case, made a number of observations about the actor's behaviour on the night of the accident, which killed one and injured four.

Salman Khan did not wait for the police, went home and hid himself, observed Mumbai sessions court judge DW Deshpande in his judgement that holds the actor guilty in a 2002 hit-and-run case.

Judge DW Deshpande has summoned Mr Khan to appear today to give his statement under section 313 of Code of Criminal Procedures (CrPc) which comes at the fag end of the trial

The witness, who is an assistant inspector at the RTO, told Sessions Judge DW Deshpande that the actor had obtained a driving licence only in 2004, two years after the hit-and-run incident

Admitting Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's appeal against his five-year prison sentence today, Bombay High Court judge Abhay Thipsay said, "It is not a case where the applicant is likely to abscond and both parties have no objection to hearing an appeal in a fast manner, so the sentence is suspended until an appeal is disposed."

Actor Salman Khan will not go to jail for now in a hit-and-run case - the Bombay High Court suspended his five-year prison sentence today pending an appeal.

Mumbai sessions court judge DW Deshpande, who convicted actor Salman Khan in the 2002 hit-and-run case, made a number of observations about the actor's behaviour on the night of the accident, which killed one and injured four.

Salman Khan did not wait for the police, went home and hid himself, observed Mumbai sessions court judge DW Deshpande in his judgement that holds the actor guilty in a 2002 hit-and-run case.

Judge DW Deshpande has summoned Mr Khan to appear today to give his statement under section 313 of Code of Criminal Procedures (CrPc) which comes at the fag end of the trial

The witness, who is an assistant inspector at the RTO, told Sessions Judge DW Deshpande that the actor had obtained a driving licence only in 2004, two years after the hit-and-run incident