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Monday, 19th May 2014, 06:30 PM IST Superstar Salman Khan finds himself in more trouble as the fourth witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case claimed that the actor was drunk on the night of the incident. The witness worked in a bar and claimed that Salman, along with his friends, had ordered drinks on the night of the accident. Earlier, Salman Khan arrived at the Mumbai sessions court for hearing of the case related to a threat complaint made by one of the eyewitnesses in the 2002 hit-and-run case allegedly involving the actor. Two weeks back, on May 6, one of the prosecution witnesses in the 2002 hit-and-run case identified him as the person who had exited from the car in a drunken state and escaped from the mishap site. Samba Gowda, who was the first witness, had said that he had drawn a panchnama of the articles seized by police on the day of the incident on September 28, 2002. The witness had told the prosecutor Jagannath Kenjalkar that the car involved in the accident was a big car and that police had reached the spot along with him.He said that the car had rammed into a shop and its bumper had hit the shutter of the shop. Salman is accused of culpable homicide not amounting to murder after he drove his SUV on to a pavement in Bandra, killing one person and leaving four injured. Last year, on 5th December, the court ordered a fresh trial on the ground that the witnesses had not been examined in the context of aggravated charge of culpable homicide, which was invoked against the actor midway through the case. This charge attracts a 10 year sentence. The actor has earlier been tried by a magistrate for a lesser offence of causing death by negligence, which entailed an imprisonment of two years. This 12-year-old case has had 17 witnesses examined in connection with the case so far.
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