Blackbuck poaching case: Jodhpur Court reserves order on Salman Khan’s bail plea for April 7
The court had sentenced him to to five years in jail and levied a penalty of Rs 10,000 on him.
A Jodhpur Court on Friday reserved its order on actor Salman’s Khan’s bail plea for April 7. On Thursday, the court had sentenced Khan to five years in jail and levied a penalty of Rs 10,000 on him in the blackbuck poaching case.
The sessions court had convicted Khan of hunting the endangered blackbuck in Rajasthan’s Kankani village while shooting the film Hum Saath Saath Hain in 1998.
Khan was made to undergo a medical test and then lodged in ward number 2 of Jodhpur Central Jail, ANI reported. He will have to remain there for another day.
The prosecutor had applied for the maximum jail term of six years under the Wildlife Protection Act.
Khan’s co-actors were also named in the case as they were in the vehicle he had used while hunting the animal. However, the court acquitted Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Neelam and Tabu in the two-decade-old case.
This is the last of three poaching cases and an Arms Act case against Khan from the 1998 incidents. The actor has spent time in a Jodhpur jail twice in connection with the case.