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Activist challenges HC order on contempt against Salman Khan

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A social activist has in a petition before the Supreme Court, challenged a Bombay High Court order quashing his contempt complaint against actor Salman Khan, for posting updates on cases he is involved in on his website.

The activist, Hemant Patil, has stated in a special leave petition that the HC was incorrect in dismissing his complaint and must be set aside.

Patil had in his complaint before the Bandra metropolitan magistrate alleged that by putting the court proceedings, including the 2002 hit-and-run case, on his website (www.salmankhanfiles.com) the actor was committing contempt as the matters were sub judice.

However, in his appeal against the contempt complaint, the actor had argued that his intention was accurate reporting of the cases that pertained to him.

Salman also pleaded that the hit-and-run case was with the session's court and that the magistrate had no jurisdiction to issue notice to him on the contempt complaint.

The HC while quashing the contempt complaint also imposed a cost of Rs2,000 on the complainant, observing that it was necessary to deter people from wasting the time of the court with such frivolous complaints.

 

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