Originally posted by: nonam
if the man was such an upstanding policeman, and salman was driving, why did he let salman get in the car drunk?
and seriously someone dying from tb is now salman's fault too?
the fact that noone from his family helped him, salman controls that?
it's sad the way he died, but the far reaching theories are sort of ridiculous
http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/i-asked-salman-to-drive-slowly-but-he-didn-t-listen-ravindra-patil/article1-1344633.aspx
Ravindra Patil's statement: 'I asked Salman to drive slowly, but he didn't listen'
- HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times,
| - Updated: May 07, 2015 13:16 IST
Ravindra
Patil, a police constable who was appointed as Salman Khan's bodyguard,
was important in the prosecution's case. He died in 2007. (HT file
photo)
Bollywood action hero Salman Khan was on Wednesday sentenced to five years in jail in a 2002 hit-and-run case.
The statement given by Ravindra Patil, a police constable who was
appointed as Salman Khan's bodyguard, was important in the prosecution's
case.
As Patil passed away in 2007, the prosecution had asked the sessions
court to consider his statement, which was recorded before the
magistrate court, as evidence.
In his statement, Patil had told the court, "On September 28, 2002, I
was attached to the protection branch. I was deputed as Salman Khan's
bodyguard and was to remain with him."
Patil said he had started work the day before at 8pm. "On September
27, 2002, at 9.30pm, the accused and Kamaal Khan came out of a room at
their residence and told me they were going to Rain Bar, Juhu. The
accused had a Toyota Land Cruiser car with the registration number MH 01
DA 32. The accused was driving the car.
"They asked me to wait outside, while the accused and Kamaal went
inside the hotel. The bodyguard of Sohail Khan also met me there. After a
few hours, the accused and Kamaal came out. The accused sat in the
driver's seat and I was sitting next to him. Kamaal was sitting in the
rear," he had said in his deposition.
Patil said they went to JW Marriott, where he was made to wait
outside again. "They came out at 2.15am. When the accused sat behind the
wheel, I asked him whether he would be driving the car. He ignored me.
The accused was driving the car at a speed of 90-100km/hour. Before
reaching the Hill Road junction, I told the accused to slow down as a
right turn was coming up. He ignored me again. The accused lost control
of the car while taking a turn and drove right on to the footpath."
Patil had told the court that the car crashed into American Express
bakery and broke its shutter. "There was a lot of shouting and people
had gathered around us. I showed my identity car and told the crowd I
was a policeman, which pacified them. The accused and Kamaal ran away
from the spot. I went to the car to check and saw that one person was
seriously injured. There were four others who were stuck under the car."
Patil said he was the one who called the police control room and then lodged a complaint with the Bandra police.
"The incident took place because the car was in speed and the
accused, in a drunken state, could not control the car while taking the
turn," he had said.
http://www.mid-day.com/articles/mid-day-archives-salman-khans-bodyguards-statement-in-2002/16190183
Mid-day archives: Salman Khan's bodyguard's statement in 2002
By Vinod Kumar Menon |Posted 06-May-2015
Salman Khan's police bodyguard Ravindra Patil gave his side of
the story regarding of events that occured on the fateful night. We
present an interview taken a few days after the incident in 2002
Actor Salman Khan's police bodyguard
Ravindra Patil claims that he does not know how to drive. However,
Salman's advocates have claimed in their bail application that it was
Patil who was at the wheel at the time of Saturday's accident in which
one person was killed and three injured.
At his home in Naigaon yesterday, Constable Patil, of the Special Branch-I (Protection), recounted Friday night's, events.
At 10:30 pm, I escorted Salman Khan, his cousin Kamal Khan and driver, Altaf to the Rain bar and restaurant in Juhu.
Salman and Kamal were inside for a long time. When they finally emerged, Salman seemed quite normal.
We got into the Toyota Land Cruiser and headed for Salman's house in Bandra, with Altaf at the wheel.
Along the way, Salman asked Altaf to stop at the JW Marriott, where
Salman went in and returned in 15 minutes. He then took the driver's
seat.
Salman was driving at speeds of up to 70 kmph. At around 2.30 am,
when we were a few minutes from the accident spot, Salman turned to talk
to me.
When he looked back at the road, he realised the Land Cruiser was about to hit an electric pole.
He shouted, "Gadi nahi ghum rahi (The car isn't turning)." He then
lost control of the vehicle and it rammed into the American Express
Laundry.
Immediately, a mob of around 50 people gathered near the sport and started pelting the vehicle with stones.
Salman requested the public to listen, but the angry mob kept throwing stones.
Kamal meanwhile escaped in the melee and minutes later Salman got into an auto rickshaw and left.
Patil then contacted the police control room and narrated the happenings.
Within minutes, a wireless van from the Bandra Police Station reached the spot.
It
was only when the police crane lifted the car from the spot that they
spotted the badly smashed body of the deceased. The injured were rushed
to Bhabha Hospital, Bandra.
Patil clarified that he didn't lodge
any FIR (first information report) with Bandra police, but only
narrated the happening as per the rules.
The police then made
him sign the statement. Patil has been with the Mumbai Police for the
past 5 years and the protection department for the past year and the
half.
He had provided security to businessmen and film
personalities like Vinod Khanna, Amitabh Bachchan etc. before being
assigned as Salman's security guard from August 22 in 2002.
Mumbai Police withdrew the protection given to Salman hours after the accident.
- See more at:
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