A city sessions court on Monday deferred a ruling till June 24 on Salman Khan’s plea challenging a Magistrate Court’s order invoking the charge of “culpable homicide not amounting to murder” against him in the much-discussed 2002 hit-and-run case, after the court staff failed to report for duty owing to heavy rains in the city.
In the normal course, Sessions Judge UB Hejib was to have dictated the order in the open court room on Monday. However, after the staff members of the court failed to turn up owing to disruption of train and bus services in the city caused by incessantly heavy rains, the actor’s lawyer sought adjournment of the pronouncement of the ruling.
With the prosecution raising no objection to the plea by Salman’s lawyer, the judge deferred the pronouncement of ruling to June 24. The arguments in favour of and against Salman’s revision application had concluded on May 8, following which the judge had earlier scheduled the ruling for June 10.
Appearing for Salman, his lawyer Ashok Mudargi had argued that Magistrate Vasant Patil’s order was “erroneous, bad in law and contrary to evidence on record”.