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    Bollywood star Salman Khan guilty of poaching

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorApril 5, 2018No Comments2 Mins Read
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    Salman Khan guilty of poaching two endangered antelopes
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    Salman Khan guilty of poaching two endangered antelopes

    Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has been convicted over the killing of two endangered blackbuck antelope back in 1998 during the shooting of a movie.

    Khan could now face between one and six years in jail. He can appeal against the verdict.

    He was alleged of killing a deer when him and his co-stars – Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Neelam and Tabu – were shooting for “Hum Saath Saath Hain” in the forests near Jodhpur in 1998.



    In 2007, Salman had spent a week in Jodhpur jail before the court granted him bail.

    Beside the cases of poaching of endangered antelopes under the Wildlife (Protection) Act, a case under sections 3/25 and 3/27 of the Arms Act was filed against Khan for allegedly keeping and using firearms with an expired licence in the poaching of blackbucks in Kankani near Jodhpur on October 1–2, 1998.

    On 17 February 2006, Khan was sentenced to one year in prison for hunting the Chinkara, an endangered species.

    The sentence was stayed by a higher court during appeal.

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    On 10 April 2006, he was handed a five-year jail term and remanded to Jodhpur jail until 13 April when he was granted bail.

    On 24 July 2012, Rajasthan High Court finalized charges against Khan and his other colleagues in the endangered blackbuck killing case, paving way for the start of the trial.

    On 9 July 2014, the Supreme Court issued a notice to Salman on Rajasthan government’s plea challenging the HC order suspending his conviction.

    Salman Khan was acquitted in the blackbuck and chinkara poaching cases by the Rajasthan High Court on Monday 24 July 2016.

    On 18 October 2016 the Rajasthan Government decided to approach the Supreme Court against Salman Khan’s acquittal in two cases related to the chinkara (blackbuck) poaching case.

    On January 18, 2017: Salman Khan was acquitted by a Jodhpur court in an Arms Act case linked to the killing of a blackbuck in Rajasthan.

    Khan pleaded “not guilty” to charges of violating the law by keeping unlicensed weapons and using them.

    Acquitting the actor, the court said that the prosecution failed to submit enough evidence against the actor.

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