Bombay High Court's latest verdict, which clears Bollywood actor Salman Khan from the hit-and-run charges

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has been cleared by the Bombay High Court Thursday of killing a man in a hit-and-run crash 13 years ago.

The high court acquitted Salman Khan of all charges after the megastar filed an appeal against his conviction.

"The appeal is allowed and the decision of the trial court is quashed and set aside. Salman Khan is acquitted of all charges," judge Anil Ramchandra Joshi told the Bombay High Court.

Khan had been sentenced to five years in prison at the outcome of his trial in May.
Are people's perception of justice warped by a perpetrator's celebrity status? Not as much as we think.

The Bombay High Court's latest verdict, which clears Bollywood actor Salman Khan from the hit-and-run charges against him, has us thinking that the public isn't that swayed by his celebrity

In 2002, Salman Khan's SUV crashed into a group of homeless men in Mumbai in 2002, after which the the actor and his companions fled the scene. In May 2015, Khan was charged by the Bombay High Court with culpable homicide and handed a five-year sentence. But the BHC has now acquitted Salman of all charges as the 'prosecution failed to establish its case against the star', reported Times of India.