Salman Khan acquitted in black buck poaching cases
Jaipur, July 25 (ANI): In a huge relief to Bollywood actor Salman Khan, the Rajasthan High Court on Monday acquitted him in the 1998 black buck and Chinkara poaching cases.
The Rajasthan government is likely to move the Supreme Court against the high court verdict in the case.
Meanwhile, Salman lawyer, welcoming the court’s decision, claimed that the the 1998 poaching case against his client was a ‘planted case’.
Salman Khan had earlier appealed before the High Court challenging the lower court’s verdict that had handed him one and five years’ imprisonment in the two separate cases of poaching.
Salman Khan Has Been Acquitted From All Charges From Rajasthan High Court.
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Had the High Court maintained the lower court’s verdict, Khan would have had to once again go to Jodhpur central jail.
Khan and seven others had been accused of killing a black buck and Chinkara in two separate incidents. One
of the animals was killed at Bhawad on the outskirts of Jodhpur on September 26, 1998, and the other at Ghoda Farms on September 28, 1998. At that time, they were shooting for the film Hum Sath Sath Hain. (ANI)
