HC to hear Salman Khan, Raj govt's appeals in poaching case on Sept 22
Rajasthan high court
's Jodhpur bench will hear on Sept 22 the appeal of actor Salman Khan against his conviction in the black buck poaching case. The trial court convicted Khan and sentenced him to 5 years imprisonment on April 5, 2018.
Along with this, the high court will also hear on Sept 22 the Rajasthan govt's 'Leave to Appeal' against acquittal of the co-accused in the case—Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, Neelam, and a local, Dushyant Singh.
Both petitions were clubbed and listed together following the transfer of Khan's appeal to the high court from the district & sessions court.
Prosecution's counsel, Mahipal Bishnoi, said Khan's lawyers had earlier filed a transfer petition in the high court against his sentence so that the appeal filed by him could be clubbed with the appeal filed by the state govt. "In this matter, Justice Manoj Kumar Garg Monday ordered that the appeal filed by Salman Khan in the subordinate court should also be listed in the high court under the transfer petition. Along with this, both cases were clubbed together, and a joint hearing will now be held on Sept 22 at the high court at Jodhpur," said Bishnoi.
In 1998, during the shooting of the film 'Hum Saath Saath Hain', Khan was accused of hunting two blackbucks in Kankani village of Jodhpur district. The chief judicial magistrate (Jodhpur) sentenced Khan to five years in prison.
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