Plea alleges Salman Khan gave misleading info about license
Jodhpur, Dec 7 (PTI) A plea has been made in a localcourt here asking it to hear an application that alleged thatBollywood star Salman Khan had provided misleading informationabout his arms license.
"Khan submitted an affidavit in the trial court duringthe hearing of the case against him under the Arms Act thathis arms license was missing. But during the same period, itwas produced in the commissioner's office in Mumbai forrenewal," said one of the prosecution counsel Mahipal Bishnoi.
He said that this application was to be decided beforethe judgement by the trial court in the arms act case butremained undecided, and the judgement in the case wasdelivered acquitting Khan from the allegations of using armswith an expired license for poaching.
Now since the acquittal has been challenged in thedistrict and sessions court by the state government, a freshapplication has been moved in the court praying to decide thisapplication, Bishnoi said.
Khan's counsel H M Saraswat said that there was nothinglike misleading the court in the matter and the license wasfound missing but was later found before producing it forrenewal.
"We would submit our reply in the court on the nexthearing of the case," Saraswat said.
The session court has listed the matter for hearing onJanuary 10 along with the petition from the state governmentchallenging Khan's acquittal by the trial court.
Before this also, an undecided application moved by theprosecution in 2006 had suddenly came up just ahead of thejudgement in the arms act case in the trial court on February25, 2014.
The court had then refused to pronounce the judgementwithout deciding this application, which put off the judgementin the case for three long years and the court of the ChiefJudicial Magistrate had acquitted Khan from all the chargesunder Arms Act against him on January 18 this year. PTI CORRADS.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.