Mumbai, July 2 : The Khan family was not paying
any compensation to the 70-year-old woman who was killed by a Land
Cruiser owned by Arbaaz Khan as she had been disowned by her family, the
filmmaker's brother and Bollywood star Salman Khan said Monday. "The
accident happened by mistake. I spoke to my driver and he said when he
was driving, he saw something like a black polythene bag on the road,
but it was the lady who was completely in black. I would request
everyone not to sleep on the road," Salman told reporters at their
Galaxy apartment home in Bandra here. "We are not paying any
compensation to the family members of the victim as we got to know that
her family had disowned her," he added. The incident occurred
around 11 p.m. 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 autorickshaw drivers in
the vicinity but died from her injuries. Salman's sibling Sohail Khan said that he was "shocked" when he came to know about the accident. "I
was at home. I did not know what was happening. Only driver was there
in the car. The car was coming home and they did not know who the family
was," he told reporters. Sohail also said that "the news has been hyped a lot". "Instead
of focusing on who was in the car, people should focus on the fact that
a women died. I got to know about this incident after an hour. This
accident happened by mistake," he added. © IANS |
