Our Correspondent
Jodhpur, June 17
In a big relief to actor Salman Khan, the Chief Judicial Magistrate of Jodhpur on Monday dismissed the Rajasthan Government’s petition on ‘false affidavit’ in absence of valid evidence against him.
The state government in 2006 moved a plea accusing Khan of submitting a fake affidavit. Chief Judicial Magistrate Ankit Raman dismissed the state government’s plea.
In 1998, Khan was booked in three different cases in black buck poaching case related to the shooting of his film Hum Saath Saath Hain. In one of the cases, he was booked under the Arms Act. During the hearing of this case, he was asked to submit his arms licence.
The state government made the accusation after the actor submitted an affidavit in court claiming he had lost his weapon’s licence, when it had actually gone for renewal. The prosecution asked the court to take action against Khan under Section 340 of the CrPC in 2006.
However, defence counsel Hastimal Saraswati argued that Khan had no intention of misleading the court and his licence was actually missing at the time he was asked to submit it. “Any proceeding against him would be unjustified, he pleaded.
“Soon after Salman was booked under the Arms Act, we asked him to send his weapon’s licence. He searched for it at his home but could not find it as it had been submitted at Mumbai Police Commissioner’s office for renewal. Khan however, forgot this and registered an FIR at the Bandra police station. We submitted the missing licence report in court along with the other documents. However, the DCP later sent the renewed licence, following which the prosecution accused Khan of submitting a fake certificate in court,” Saraswat said.
Saraswat said they argued that they had no such mala fide intention. “All statements made by Salman were in harmony and, therefore, he was set free,” he added.
from The Tribune http://bit.ly/2L4XTKH
via Today’s News Headlines
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