Salman Khan Walks Free in Blackbuck, Chinkara Poaching Cases

Verdict to be announced for Salman Khan’s blackbuck poaching case of 1998 by Rajasthan High Court.

Verdict to be announced by court in Salman Khan Poaching case. (Photo: PTI)

The Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur acquitted actor Salman Khan in the blackbuck and chinkara poaching cases on Monday.

Salman had appealed before the high court, challenging the lower court’s verdict that had handed him one and five years’ imprisonment respectively in the two separate cases of poaching.

Salman Khan was acquitted in the hit-and-run case by the Bombay High Court in December 2015. (Photo: Reuters)

Khan and seven others were accused of killing a blackbuck and chinkara in two separate incidents. One of the animals was killed at Bhawad on the outskirts of Jodhpur on 26 September 1998, and the other at Ghoda Farms on 28 September 1998.

At that time, they were shooting for the film Hum Saath Saath Hain. Salman had been lodged in Jodhpur jail earlier too.