Farah's gems: Jewelry designer tweets in Salman's defense, says people shouldn't sleep on roads

Bollywood actor Salman Khan was convicted for culpable homicide in the 13-year old hit-and-run case and sentenced to five years imprisonment on Wednesday. Unsurprisingly, the film and glamour industry came out in full support of the star, from tweeting out in his defense to rushing to his Bandra residence. [caption id=“attachment_2230936” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] ![Farah Khan Ali. Image Courtesy: Twitter @FarahKhanAli ](https://images.firstpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Farah-Khan_twitter_380.jpg) Farah Khan Ali. Image Courtesy: Twitter @FarahKhanAli[/caption] But some celebs took the adage ‘offense is the best form of defense’ too seriously, as they blamed the government, the poor and even the roads but Salman, for the the crime and conviction. At the forefront of this offense was Farah Khan Ali, who is a jewelry designer by profession but is probably best known for being the sister of actor Zayed Khan and wife of DJ Aqeel. She tweeted out in vociferous defense of Salman with ridiculous reasons for why the accident occurred and why the punishment was too harsh. Firstly, she implied that the the pavement dwelling victims were responsible for the hit-and-run as they should not have been sleeping on the road in the first place because it is ‘as dangerous as crossing the tracks’. She then went on to say that Salman is a good human who did not want to kill anyone but had to pay the price. Plus his punishment shouldn’t be too harsh because the livelihood of many people depended on Salman being out of prison. Here are some of Farah’s gems (pun intended) on Twitter It's like penalising a train driver because someone decided to cross the tracks and got killed in the bargain. #salmankhancase — Farah Khan (@FarahKhanAli) May 6, 2015 More from Entertainment STRANGE! Just 4 weeks in cinemas & Rishab Shetty’s 'Kantara Chapter 1' releases on OTT 'Bugonia' Movie Review: Emma Stone starrer black comedy is absurd, unique & mind bending No one should be sleeping on the road or footpath. It is dangerous to do that just like it is dangerous to cross tracks. — Farah Khan (@FarahKhanAli) May 6, 2015 Salman is genuinely a very good human being and he made a mistake. He did not intentionally want to kill someone & now he has to pay a price — Farah Khan (@FarahKhanAli) May 6, 2015 Salman is responsible for the lively hood of many people at large and the judgement is too harsh. I hope he gets some reprive in appeal. — Farah Khan (@FarahKhanAli) May 6, 2015 STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD She went on to clarify that her tweets were aimed at the government’s failure rather than mocking the poor. In an interview with CNN IBN, Ali admitted that Salman was at fault but insisted that he would never have killed someone if no one was sleeping on the footpath. “Sleeping on the footpath is dangerous, it’s like saying that you want to be run over by a car, whether the man is drunk or whether it is a normal accident. It’s like crossing the train tracks,” said Ali. “Salman made a mistake and he deserves to be punished for it but five years is too harsh. Even the victims don’t want him to get a harsh punishment,” she added. My ppl not sleeping on the road tweet is meant to mock the govt not d poor ppl Bec every govt is responsible to provide housing to its ppl — Farah Khan (@FarahKhanAli) May 6, 2015 And I never said that Salman was faultless. I said 5 yrs is very harsh punishment. He should get less Bec he is a good citizen otherwise — Farah Khan (@FarahKhanAli) May 6, 2015

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Farah's gems: Jewelry designer tweets in Salman's defense, says people shouldn't sleep on roads

Farah Khan Ali’s tweets in defense of Salman Khan’s conviction in the hit-and-run case, saying that people shouldn’t be sleeping on the roads.

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