The Bombay high court on Wednesday adjourned to July 13 the appeal filed by actor Salman Khan against his conviction for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the 2002 case, where one person died after his car rammed into a Bandra cleaners,after the actor’s lawyer sought time to check documents

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According to the Reports,A sessions court had convicted the actor for culpable homicide not amounting to murder for the death of a person sleeping on the steps of a Bandra cleaners which the actor’s land cruiser had crashed into in September 2002. The HC had suspended the trial court sentence of five years’ rigorous imprisonment last month, soon after the May 6 sentencing. The HC had granted him bail too..The court had on June 15 posted the matter to July 1 after it was informed that the paper book of the case papers was not ready.When the case came up for hearing before Justice AR Joshi, Khan’s counsel Amit Desai informed him the paper book of the appeal was ready and submitted to the court but it contains five volumes, which need to be translated into English. The language used in the high court is English and all documents in any other language used in lower courts as evidence must be translated into English

The Public Prosecutor appeared and consented to a date fixed for the next hearing. Salman did not have to be present and wasn’t there, but his sister, who used to regularly attend the sessions court during the trial too, was present.Justice A R Joshi, however, granted adjournment till 13 July to carry out the drill of checking documents.A man was killed and four others were wounded when the actor’s Toyota Land Cruiser ran over them while they were asleep on a pavement outside a bakery in suburban Bandra on 28 September, 2002.

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Salman has challenged the findings of the trial court that he was drunk and was driving under the influence of liquor. The actor pleaded that the trial court had wrongly convicted him under the culpable homicide charge, because he had no knowledge that he would meet with an accident.In the appeal, Salman argued that the trial court had failed to appreciate the fact that four prosecution witnesses, including the investigating officer, had said that there were four persons present in the Toyota Land Cruiser when the accident occurred and that it was the family driver Ashok Singh who was at the wheel.

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The Bombay High Court on Wednesday adjourned hearing of Salman Khan’s appeal against his conviction in the 2002 hit-and-run case to July 13.This is the second adjournment in the appeal hearing.”This is nothing but killing time,” public prosecutor Sandeep Shinde told Justice A.R. Joshi.The court, however, rejected the defense’s demand for three weeks time and kept the matter for July 13, keeping in mind “earlier directions of the court” to expedite the appeal hearing.