Salman Khan house firing case: Actor requests Bombay HC to remove his name from Anuj Thapans death case
In the present day improvement within the Salman Khan house firing case, the actor has sought the removal of his call from the dying case of accused Anuj Thapan. On Wednesday, Salman filed a petition inside the Bombay High Court worrying that his call be eliminated from the petition filed by using the mother of Anuj Thapan, the accused who committed suicide in police custody within the case associated with the firing at his residence. As in keeping with a record with the aid of India TV's Atul Singh, Salman Khan's attorney Aabad Ponda asked to drop the actor's name as a respondent within the petition and claimed that the petitioner has now not made any allegations towards the actor.
He claimed that the petitioner did now not make any plea in opposition to the actor. Lawyer Ponda stated, ''In fact the actor is the sufferer right here...An strive become made to attack him and his house...He does not know the cause in the back of the assaults. Who is in the back of it and who has been arrested...Naming him as an accused is sending a incorrect message and is negative his popularity.''
The High Court become listening to the petition of Rita Devi, mom of accused Anuj Thapan, who had devoted suicide inside the prisoner mobile lavatory of the Police Commissioner's workplace on May 1.
Police claim that Thapan died by means of suicide, even as Anuj's mom has alleged irregularities in the petition and claimed that he changed into murdered. Meanwhile, a bench of Justices NR Borkar and Somshekhar Sundaresan expressed displeasure over Thapan's "incomplete" autopsy file and questioned the prosecution.
The courtroom stated that the document stated that the accused died due to suffocation. However, the autopsy file did now not encompass critical info like a diagram of the ligature mark found on his neck and any other injury marks on the body.
On April 14, pictures had been fired outdoor the house of actor Salman Khan. Both the shooters, Vicky Gupta and Sagar Pal, have been later arrested in Gujarat's Bhuj. Thapan changed into arrested in Punjab on April 26 along side every other character in reference to the case. Thapan later died in custody.
