MUMBAI: A 70-year-old woman was killed when she was knocked down by a Land Cruiser owned by Bollywood actor-filmmaker Arbaaz Khan, Mumbai police said on Monday. The Khan family says they would not pay any compensation to the victim’s family as she was disowned by them.
The incident occurred around 11 pm on Sunday near St Andrew’s Church when the vehicle was headed towards the home of the Khans at Bandstand.
The woman has been identified as Chandra Bala, police said. She was rushed to the Bhabha Hospital by a police constable and some rickshaw drivers in the vicinity, where she succumbed to her injuries.
The car was being driven by Dhananjay Pimpale. The police official confirmed that nobody else was present in the vehicle and also the fact that Pimpale was not intoxicated at the time of the accident.However, we shall send his blood samples for analysis to further confirm this,” the official added.
Arbaaz’s father, Salim Khan called it an “unfortunate” incident and told IANS: “The woman suddenly came in front of the vehicle and fell. The driver immediately applied the brakes and reported the matter to the police.”
He claimed that the woman, apparently frail, was not “crushed” as claimed in some quarters, but fell near the vehicle.
Actor Salman Khan said, “We are not paying any compensation to the family members of the victim as we got to know that her family had disowned her; she was sleeping on the streets which proves this.”
He recently tweeted: “We feel sad for the lady, it is really very sad that she was homeless and sleeping on the roads, may god rest her soul in peace.” And also added later, “Please name all the cars, drivers, car owners and all the unfortunate accidents that have happened in the past two days, also their brothers.”
The Mumbai Mirror reported that this accident took place 30 m from the same place where Salman Khan once mowed down a man in 2002.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 5th, 2012.
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This news would not have made it to a glamour section if it was in Europe or America. Rest aside printing it as it was the celebrity/owner who killed the old woman because the killer was driving his car. So now that means anything happen by, near or around a celebrity's property is open game to involve them somehow in that? That ridiculous.