Court rejects Salman petition for car sale

A public interest litigation (PIL) had been filed in the Bombay High Court soon after the incident by senior journalist Nikhil Wagle. The PIL,which has recently come up for hearing,demands that the punishment for the offence of death by negligence should be increased from two years to ten years.

Kin yet to get compensation

In 2002,the Bombay High Court had directed the payment of compensation to the kin of the person who died as well as those injured in the accident. The High Court was recently told that the kin of the deceased was yet to receive the Rs 10 lakh compensation,although it was deposited by Salman Khan.

Khan’s counsel Ashok Mundargi told Newsline,“There are multiple applications filed by several relatives of the dead person,Nurullah Sharif,which is creating difficulties in the disbursement of compensation.”

Mundargi had told the court that the delay in disbursement of compensation is due to a “dispute between the kin of the person.”

However,Nurullah’s lawyer Bhagyashree Jakhade said,“There is no dispute as such and there are only two applications filed for the purpose,both of which are pending. One of the applications was filed by Nurullah’s mother when his son was still a minor. That application was also filed on his son’s behalf. After his son attained the age of majority,he also approached the High Court’s legal services committee with an application. This is the only confusion in the matter.”