John Abraham found Guilty

Fifteen days after being convicted in a case of rash and negligent driving and for injuring two people, Bollywood actor John Abraham, on Friday, filed an appeal in the sessions court against his conviction. The Bandra metropolitan magistrate court had sentenced Abraham to 15 days of simple imprisonment on October 14.

“The lower court ought to have seen that either a person has committed a rash act or has been criminally negligent. He can’t do both,” said Abraham in his appeal.

Further, he added that the ‘judge has misconstrued and has, without applying the principles relating to the acts of rashness and criminal negligence, convicted the applicant (Abraham)’.

The appeal also stated that though the police had recorded the statements of various witnesses at the time of the incident, except for the evidence of one of the victims, ‘no other witnesses have been examined in respect to the alleged incident’.

According to Abraham, even the victim ‘has not made out a case of either criminal negligence or rashness against him.

“The lower court has relied upon hearsay evidence in convicting the appellant (Abraham), said the actor in his appeal.

The incident dates back to April 8, 2006, when Abraham had rammed his Suzuki Hayabusa bike into two youngsters on a bicycle at around 11.15 pm on Carter Road, Bandra.