Salman Khan's bail plea in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case will be heard by a Jodhpur court today. Khan had earlier been found guilty of killing blackbucks and sentenced to 5 years in jail.
Salman Khan's bail plea in the 1998 blackbuck
poaching case will
be heard on Monday by a Jodhpur court. The Bollywood actor arrived in
Rajasthan's Jodhpur on Sunday afternoon to appear before the court.
Khan had on April 5 been convicted in the 19-year-old case and
sentenced to five years in jail for killing two blackbucks in Jodhpur
during the shooting of the 1998 movie Hum
Saath Saath Hain.
Subsequently, Salman was granted bail after spending two nights in the Jodhpur Central jail. Salman's Hum Saath Saath Hain co-stars Tabu, Sonali Bendre, Saif Ali Khan and Neelam and Jodhpur resident Dushyant Singh, another accused in the case, were all acquitted due to lack of evidence.
The
blackbuck case is not the only instance of legal trouble Khan is
facing. Also in April, a Mumbai court cancelled the bailable warrant
against Khan in connection with the 2002 hit and run case. The court
had issued the bailable warrant as Khan had not completed the
procedure of providing surety on the past two dates. Further, a
Ludhiana court on May 1 rejected a petition against Salman and Shilpa
Shetty that sought action against them under the SC/ST Act for
allegedly using derogatory words against the Valmiki community. In
the same case, the Supreme Court on April 23 put on hold proceedings
pending against Khan before several courts across the country in
cases registered under the SC/ST Act.
Salman
is set to be back on the small screen as the host of Dus Ka
Dum and is shooting for the big screen venture Race
3, among other projects.
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