Mumbai: In an appeal filed by Bollywood actor Salman Khan against his five-year sentence in the 2002 hit-and-run case, his lawyer told the Bombay High Court today that the prosecution had failed to examine eye-witness Kamaal Khan though he had appeared thrice before a trial court.

"If Kamaal Khan is put in the box, the entire evidence of police bodyguard late Ravindra Patil would be thrown away as he would demolish the prosecution case," senior defence counsel Amit Desai argued before Justice A R Joshi who is presiding over the hearing of Salman's appeal.