The prosecution in the hit-and-run accident trial involving Bollywood actor Salman Khan Monday filed an application seeking to lead evidence of two crucial witnesses who were presently not available to the court. While was was the former police bodyguard of Khan who had first filed the complaint in the accident case and the other was a medico who performed the autopsy on a victim who was killed in the accident in September 2002.

Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat contended before Additional Sessions Judge D. W. Deshpande that the police bodyguard Ravindra Patil, who died due to natural causes during the trial, had given a statement to a magistrate how he had warned Khan not to drive rashly or he could meet with an accident, but went unheeded. The medico who performed the autopsy on the dead victim in the accident had now settled in the USA, but he had also given his statement to a magistrate on the post-mortem, Gharat informed the court.