Salman Hit-and-run case adjourned, key witness absconding

Mumbai, Mar 4 (UNI) Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate J B Pankhe adjourned the hearing in the hit-and-run case involving actor Salman Khan to March 16, as the key witness failed to turn up before the court for the third consecutive time though a non-bailable warrant was issued against him last month.

Cross examination of Police Constable Ravindra Patil, the key witness in the hit-and-run case, was adjourned to March 16 as he is absconding.

Defence counsel Dipesh Mehta told UNI that the court had directed the police to execute the warrant and bring him before the court to start cross-examination.

On September 28, 2002, Salman Khan's Land Cruiser had allegedly rammed into a bakery at Bandra, killing one person and injuring four others.

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