The hearing of the appeal filed by Actor Salman Khan against his five-year sentence in the 2002 hit-and-run case started in the Bombay High Court yesterday. Salman's lawyer argued that the trial court made a mistake in holding that the actor himself was driving the car. During the day's hearing, Justice AR Joshi has also dismissed an intervention application filed by Sushilabai Patil, mother of Ravindra Patil, the police bodyguard of the actor who was eye-witness to the mishap. Ravindra Patil died during the trial in 2007. The application also contended that Salman may be awarded the maximum sentence of ten years for culpable homicide. <br/><br/>In response to another application by Salman's lawyer Amit Desai, the judge imposed certain restrictions on the media. The media cannot make audio or video recording of the court proceedings and comment on the arguments and it should report only facts, Justice Joshi said. Salman was convicted on May 6 by the sessions court for ramming his car into a shop in suburban Bandra on September 28, 2002, killing one person and injuring four. He was sentenced to five years in jail for, among other charges, culpable homicide not amounting to murder. The hearing would continue on August 5.