Bollywood star Salman Khan cleared of culpable homicide

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Bollywood star Salman Khan cleared of culpable homicide



MUMBAI: -- A court in the Indian city of Mumbai has overturned a hit-and-run conviction of one of Bollywood’s biggest stars.

Salman Khan’s was found guilty of culpable homicide earlier this year after being accused of running over a homeless man during a drunk-driving incident thirteen years ago.

Khan had appealed against the conviction.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-12-11

[timmyp]

This is great, because big stars and the elite should just be allowed to kill someone once every 10 years. It would speed up the ultimate legal results.

[Morch]

Well, that's a surprise...NOT.

Someone in Bollywood probably trying to figure out how to script it without getting into to much trouble. Ought to trade it with Thai soap opera writers.

Here's a short summary of the case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Khan#Hit-and-run_case

[Baerboxer]

A rich famous well connected Indian actor, who seems to have connections with organized crime, get off.

What a surprise.

[sanukjim]

This is Asia at it's best.It is the golden rule .The more gold you have ,The more you you can get away with.