Filmmaker Kaizad Gustad was charged with causing death of Nadia Khan, a British national, on the tracks of Mahalaxmi railway station in 2004.
Six years after being charged with causing death of Nadia Khan, a British national, on the tracks of Mahalaxmi railway station in 2004, filmmaker Kaizad Gustad has been sentenced to one month in prison for the offence.
Nadia, 26, who was working with Gustad as an assistant director on the sets of Bombay Central, was knocked over by a Churchgate-bound train on May 25, 2004.
Gustad, the director of the film, who had allegedly asked Nadia to stand on track number 4, was held guilty under section 304 A (rash and negligent act resulting in death) of Indian Penal Code. Additional magistrate from Bombay Central railway court Dr Khwaja FA, however, acquitted Gustad from charges of giving false information to police and destroying evidence.
“Gustad has already spent 45 days in jail and therefore has undergone the sentence period. We will decide whether or not to appeal after reading the judgment,” said Gustad’s lawyer Junaid Shabwany.
The other five accused in the case, including Ashish Udeshi (producer), were acquitted of the charges of destroying evidence. It was the prosecution case that Gustad and Udeshi had lied to the police saying Nadia was knocked over by a car at Tardeo, which was investigated by Worli police.
Of the 35 witnesses examined by the prosecution in the case, nearly all, including actor Vijay Raaz, who were present at the time of the incident, turned hostile.
The prosecution received a boost when complainants in the case — Shankar Raman, the camera person, and Vinod Subramanium — deposed before the court supporting the prosecution.
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