The Maharashtra government does not have any information on Bollywood actor Salman Khan’s 2002 hit-and-run case as the files pertaining to it were destroyed in a fire on June 21, 2012.
According to Huffington Post India, A Right to Information (RTI) activist Mansoor Darvesh has revealed that the files were burnt in the June 21, 2012 devastating fire that engulfed Mantralaya, the state government headquarters in south Mumbai.
Darvesh was informed that the files pertaining to the case got burnt on 21 June 2012 when a fire engulfed the state secretariat and, therefore, they cannot be made available. When the judgement was pronounced in the hit-n-run case, Darvesh was told that “the only thing that the government knows is about the appointment of special public prosecutor Pradeep Gharat who was appointed at a fee of Rs.6,000 per hearing,” Indian media reported.
Maharashtra government has promised to reconstruct all the data which was lost in the fire but failed to do so till now.
On May 6, actor Salman Khan was convicted for ‘culpable homicide not amounting to murder’ and sentenced to five years imprisonment but later he was granted bail by Bombay High Court.
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