Salman Khan case: Witness takes U-turn

MUMBAI: A witness in the 2002 hit-and-run case involving Salman Khan on Tuesday retracted his police statement in a court, saying he had not said that the actor had got down from the driver’s seat of his vehicle and ran away after the accident occurred in suburban Bandra.
“My statement recorded by police that I saw Salman coming out from the driver’s seat and running away from the spot is incorrect,” the witness, Sachin Kadam, a security guard of NeelSagar Hotel, told Judge D W Deshpande.
Earlier, the witness had told police in a statement that he had seen the actor getting down from the driver’s seat of his car and going away from the scene of the mishap.
Kadam said he had only told the police that a big car came and rammed into the shutter of a shop.
Kadam was on Tuesday confronted with his police statement but he went back on his own words saying he had not told the police about this.
However, the witness was unable to say why the police had recorded a “false version” in his statement. Public prosecutor Jagannath Kenjralkar told the court that Kadam should be declared as a hostile witness as he had not supported the prosecution. However, the court has yet to pass order on this plea.