During the last hearing, a witness identified Salman and told the court that the actor was in the driver’s seat.

Bollywood star Salman Khan's blood had alcohol when it was tested immediately after the accident, a chemical expert testified before the trial court on Wednesday in the 2002 hit and run case.

IBNLive reported the expert witness who testified before the Sessions Court in Mumbai earlier today, told the court that Salman's blood-alcohol level was high, almost double the permissible limit. "I also conducted the Morpholin test which showed positive results. 62 mg of Ethylalcohol was found in Salman's blood," said the expert. Times Now reported that the permissible limit is 30 mg.

During the last hearing, a witness identified Salman and told the court that the actor was in the driver’s seat in a stationary car in the parking slot of a hotel in suburban Juhu on the same night when his vehicle met with an accident.

However, the witness, Kalpesh Verma, the then parking attendant at the hotel, said he had not seen who was sitting in driver’s seat when the car left the hotel. He had also not seen who was driving the vehicle when the vehicle moved out.

The prosecution’s case is that Salman had come to the hotel along with his friends and had drinks before leaving the place and meeting with an accident in Bandra on 28 September, 2002 in which one person was killed and four others injured.

The sessions court had on 5 December last year ordered a fresh trial in the case on the ground that witnesses had not been examined in the context of aggravated charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder, which was invoked against the actor by a magisterial court midway through the hearing.

The actor had earlier been tried by a magistrate for a lesser offence of causing death by negligence, which entailed an imprisonment of two years, while the charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder attracts a 10-year sentence.

The magistrate, after examining 17 witnesses, had ruled that a case of culpable homicide was made out against the actor and referred it to the sessions court. Trial of cases of culpable homicide can be conducted by courts higher than magisterial courts.

On 28 September, 2002, the actor’s car had allegedly rammed into a bakery, killing one person and injuring four others sleeping on the pavement outside.

With agency inputs