MUMBAI: In a blow to actor Salman Khan, a sessions court on Monday upheld a magistrate court order to enhance charges against him in the 11-year-old hit and-run case. It is alleged that a drunk Khan had rammed his Land Cruiser into a pavement, killing one person and injuring four. Sessions judge U B Hejib rejected the actor's revision plea against the order. He will now be tried under the more serious Indian Penal Code Section 304-II (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), which attracts a maximum punishment of 10 years. Khan will now have to appear before the sessions court on July 19. In a...
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