The Supreme Court, which on Monday heard a petition challenging Bollywood actor Salman Khan's acquittal in the 2002 hit-and-run case by the Bombay High Court, asked the petitioner to approach the appropriate bench hearing the matter.
Parmanand Katara, a lawyer, informed the apex court that the High Court should not have acquitted Khan as his appeal should have been heard by a lower court.
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Katara further said that since Khan had been given a five-year jail term by the trial court in the hit-and-run case, his appeal should have first come up for review by a lower court and not directly in the High Court which could examine cases when punishment was more than seven years.
Khan had been convicted by a trial court in May last year for driving over a man sleeping on a pavement in Mumbai in 2002.
The Bollywood actor had subsequently appealed his conviction and jail sentence before the Bombay High Court, which acquitted him in December last year.