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Mumbai high court calls for probe papers in Salman case

Expressing dissatisfaction over the manner in which investigations were being conducted, Justices A P Shah and Ranjana Desai also expressed anguish over the plight of the victims and directed public prosecutor, Jyoti Pawar, to find out if the actor had been appropriately charged.

The judges were acting on a Public Interest Litigation, which seeks the review of the provisions of the Motor Vehicles Act, especially with regard to payment of compensation and the punishment to offenders.

The court ordered the petitioners, Nikhil Wagle, Nilu Damle and Sudha Kulkarni of Mahila Dakshata Samiti, to serve the notice on Salman Khan.

The PIL urged that the compensation paid in road accidents, concerning rash and negligent driving, should be determined on the basis of 'paying capacity' of the driver and not on the earning capacity of the victims.

Citing several instances of actor Salman Khan's alleged violent behaviour with co-stars and his involvement in a black buck poaching case in Rajasthan, the PIL suggested that Salman 'desperately needed psychiatric or psychoanalytical treatment before another fatal outburst'.

Counsel for the petitioners, Niteen Pradhan, urged the court to direct the police to invoke the provisions of the Mental Health Act, 1987, and get the actor treated by a psychiatrist, until he recovers.

The petitioners said they were not suggesting that the actor was 'mentally deranged'. They said they had sympathy for Salman, but the 'nuisance caused by him' to the society was intolerable.

PTI

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