On Monday, the Rajasthan High Court acquitted fimstar Salman Khan in blackbuck and chinkara poaching cases of 1998.

Justice Nirmaljeet Kaur of Jodhpur principal seat of High Court pronounced the verdict acquitting Salman Khan in both cases citing "benefit of doubt".

The actor had appealed against a lower court verdict that had sentenced him to one year's jail term in the blackbuck case and five years' imprisonment in the chinkara case.

Social media's response to the acquittal was along the lines of this tweet from April 2015.

The cases had been registered after Khan and seven of his co-stars had been accused of poaching three chinkaras and a blackbuck while shooting for director Sooraj Barjatya's film Hum Saath Saath Hain near Jodhpur in 1998.

The blackbuck and chinkara (Indian gazelle) are protected species.

While pleading not guilty of the charges, the actor had claimed that the forest department officials had framed him.

The actor has maintained a studious silence on the verdict on Twitter so far, just as he has on all controversial subjects after having compared a tough film shoot to being raped.

Other than his recent film, Khan had earlier been in news for his appointment as India's brand ambassador for Rio Olympics 2016.

Last year, in December, Khan had been acquitted of all charges in the 2002 hit-and-run case by the Bombay High Court.

In that case too the bench had noted that the prosecution had failed to prove "beyond reasonable doubt" that the actor was driving the vehicle at the time of the accident and was drunk.

Some of the reactions to today's verdict on Twitter.

It also provided an opportunity for his critics to mock his movies.

The sheer cynicism over the verdict was evident in the sarcasm doing the rounds.