Bollywood’s own bad boy Salman Khan had been convicted by the Jodhpur Court in the blackbuck killing case. He was on bail.
And he is back before the Court.
Salman Khan arrived in Jodhpur on Sunday afternoon, a day ahead of hearing on his bail plea after his conviction in a 1998 blackbuck poaching case by a Jodhpur trial court.
Khan’s fans were seen trying hard to get a glimpse of the Bollywood superstar while he was leaving the airport.
He was accompanied by his sister Alvira, friend Baba Siddiqui, and his lawyers.
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On Monday, his bail plea will be heard by district and session Judge Chandra Kumar Songara, during which Khan will be present in court.
Khan was convicted and handed a five-year imprisonment on April 5 by Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri for killing two blackbucks, 19 years ago. He spent two nights in the Jodhpur central jail before he was granted bail by the sessions court on April 7.
Salman has repeatedly denied killing the endangered animals and accuses Rajasthan’s forest department of trying to frame him.
His lawyers claim the black bucks died of natural causes such as overeating, insisting there was no evidence they were shot.
Throughout the multiple cases, eyewitnesses have stated they saw Mr Khan firing a gun.
Both judge Khatri and judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi, who gave him bail, have since been transferred.
Khan’s Bollywood colleagues Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre were acquitted by the trial court. Another accused Mr Dushyant Singh, an area resident, was also acquitted.
Khan was accused of shooting and killing blackbucks in Kankani village near Jodhpur on October 1, 1998, during the shooting of the film “Hum Saath Saath Hain”.
This is not the first time the 52-year-old has been before the Court.
Salman was in a vehicle in Mumbai in 2002 when it mounted the curb and killed a homeless man sleeping on the pavement.
He was found guilty of culpable homicide and sentenced to five years in prison, but the verdict was overturned in a higher court in 2015. That acquittal is being challenged in the Supreme Court.
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