Mumbai, May 6 (IANS): Barely hours after he was sentenced to five years jail in the 2002 accident case, Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was granted two days interim bail on medical grounds by the Bombay High Court on Wednesday.
Rushing post-haste to secure bail, Salman's defence team led by Supreme Court counsel Harish Salve mentioned the matter before Justice A.M. Thipsay of the Bombay High Court.
Salve cited medical reasons for seeking bail and also argued that a person could not be arrested on the basis of a summarised court order.
He said they were awaiting a copy of the lower court order, after which Justice Thipsay said he was already out on bail and has not yet got a copy of the judgement and granted two days interim relief till May 8.
The hearing on the bail application will now be taken up on Friday morning.
Earlier on Wednesday morning, Additional Sessions Judge D.W. Deshpande found the actor guilty of all the charges in the September 2002 accident which left one person dead and four people injured, and later pronounced a five-year sentence.
Friday would be the final working day of the Bombay High Court before it goes on its annual summer vacation and will reopen on June 7.