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Article: Indian film star avoids culpable homicide charge _ for now
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- December 18, 2003
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AP Worldstream
12-18-2003
Dateline: NEW DELHI
Indian movie star Salman Khan will be charged with causing death by negligence but not culpable homicide for his alleged involvement in a fatal traffic accident, India's Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
However, the Bombay court hearing the case can bring the tougher charge against him if enough evidence is presented at a later date, Judges N. Santosh Hegde and B.P. Singh ruled in New Delhi.
One man was killed and another three were injured when Khan allegedly rammed his car into a group of homeless people sleeping on a Bombay sidewalk in September 2002.
Thursday's ruling came in response to an appeal by government prosecutors for a culpable homicide ...
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