The Bombay High court has granted permission to actor Salman Khan to travel to Dubai for an event on May 29. Khan was convicted for culpable homicide not amounting to murder for the death of one person sleeping on the steps of a shop when his car rammed into a Bandra laundry in September 2002.
Salman Khan's plea was heard on Tuesday by a single judge of vacation bench of the Bombay High Court. Two days after his conviction, on May 8, the Bombay HC had admitted Khan's appeal against the conviction, suspended the sentence, and granted him bail. The HC, after hearing Khan's counsel Amit Desai and the public prosecutor S Shinde, had said that the charge of culpable homicide under section 304-II of Indian Penal Code needs consideration. But the HC had said that the actor would require to seek prior permission each time he wishes to travel abroad. Khan thus moved the HC for permission to go to Dubai.
The HC judge Justice Abhay Thipsay, while admitting his appeal had said, "This is not a case where in spite of the admission of the Appeal, the appellant should be kept in detention till the Appeal is decided. It would be proper to suspend the sentence during the pendency of the Appeal." On Khan's counsel Amit Desai's plea that Khan be granted liberty to apply for a permission to travel abroad, Justice Thipsay had said, "It is needless to say that such liberty has not been taken away, and it would be open for him to make such an application to this Court, which shall deal with it on merits and in accordance with law.''
