Bollywood actor Salman Khan sentenced to jail for poaching

Yesterday, his lawyer HM Saraswat filed a bail application in the sessions court immediately after the sentencing, and on the same premises.

The Court has reserved the actor’s bail plea order till Saturday.

The accused landed in Jodhpur on Wednesday ahead of the court hearing.

The court was crowded with his fans and well-wishers during the hearing.

While the actor spent a week in jail, the sentence was suspended by the Rajasthan High Court.

Salman was arrested on Thursday after he was given a five-jail term by a Jodhpur court which found him guilty in a 1998 black buck poaching case.

Actress Preity Zinta at Jodhpur Central Jail on Friday to meet Salman Khan.

There is heavy security at the Jodhpur Central jail because of the superstar’s presence. Someone clicked the photograph and then uploaded it on social media. Followed by the same, there have been constant reports on what has been happening inside and outside the jail premises that has held Salman as a prisoner.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri convicted Salman under Section 9/51 of the Wildlife Protection Act.

The public prosecutor said that they asked for the maximum punishment (of six years). It is alleged that Khan and four other actors in the auto with him fled the scene when they were spotted. He argued that no investigation in any of the cases of poaching proved that Salman used firearms.

The actor contends he did not shoot the two blackbuck deer in the western India preserve in 1998 and was acquitted in related cases.

The judge will deliver the verdict only if he’s convinced from both the sides about the case, and he has all the rights to deliver the verdict on Monday and beyond too.

In the fourth case, he has been pronounced guilty. Khan was accused of killing two blackbucks in October 1998 during the shooting of Hum Saath Saath Hain.