The hearing on Salman Khan’s appeal against his conviction in the 2002 hit-and-run case ran into a procedural hiccup yet again on Monday, as the Bombay High Court rejected the revised “paper-book” in the case and directed the Registry to prepare a fresh set, after the actor’s senior counsel Amit Desai objected to the inclusion of entire chargesheet in it.
After taking cognizance of the objections raised by the actor’s lawyer, Justice AR Joshi directed the Registry to have a fresh set of “paper-book” prepared following the manual of the Bombay High Court and make available copies of the same to both the Prosecution and defence counsel, before the next hearing of the case on September 11.
The judge told the high court Registry to ensure that the trial court — which had on May 6 this year convicted Salman for culpable homicide not amounting to murder and sentenced him to five years’ imprisonment in the 2002 hit-and-run case — to prepare a proper “paper-book” this time around.
The “paper book” is a compilation of evidence and related documents prepared by the Registry with the help of the trial court and made available to both the Prosecution and defence ahead of the start of the hearing of an appeal.