This Article is From Mar 10, 2014

Salman Khan poaching case: Next court date on April 15

Salman Khan poaching case: Next court date on April 15

Salman is accused of hunting and killing the endangered chinkara and blackbuck.

Highlights

  • Actor Salman Khan’s chinkara poaching case will next be heard in a Jodhpur court on April 15. Mr Khan's statement in the Arms Act case was not recorded today as his appeal to club two separate poaching cases together will be reviewed on March 20.
  • In January, Mr Khan told the court that he had no arms with him in Jodhpur and they were in Mumbai. "I had called for those arms from Mumbai to Jodhpur only after the Forest Department asked me," he said. The actor also told the court that he was not guilty of poaching and that the investigation and forest officers had fabricated a case against him.
  • Mr Khan is accused of hunting and killing the endangered chinkara and blackbuck while shooting his film Hum Saath Saath Hain in Rajasthan in 1998. He has already twice spent time in the Jodhpur jail, in 1998 and again in 2007 and has been handed sentences of two and five years , appeals against which are pending in the High Court .
  • Mr Khan's rifle and revolver were seized by the court when he was first accused of poaching and their licences were found to have expired. Mr Khan's Hum Saath Saath Hain co-stars - Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam - are charged with inciting the actor to hunt.
  • In November last year, the Rajasthan High Court ordered that Salman Khan's poaching conviction be suspended for visa purposes to make it easier for the actor, who had been denied an UK visa to shoot his film Kick, to travel abroad.
New Delhi: Actor Salman Khan's chinkara poaching case will next be heard in a Jodhpur court on April 15. Mr Khan's statement in the Arms Act case was not recorded today as his appeal to club two separate poaching cases together will be reviewed on March 20.

In January, Mr Khan told the court that he had no arms with him in Jodhpur and they were in Mumbai. "I had called for those arms from Mumbai to Jodhpur only after the Forest Department asked me," he said. The actor also told the court that he was not guilty of poaching and that the investigation and forest officers had fabricated a case against him.

Mr Khan is accused of hunting and killing the endangered chinkara and blackbuck while shooting his film Hum Saath Saath Hain in Rajasthan in 1998. He has already twice spent time in the Jodhpur jail, in 1998 and again in 2007 and has been handed sentences of two and five years , appeals against which are pending in the High Court .

Mr Khan's rifle and revolver were seized by the court when he was first accused of poaching and their licences were found to have expired. Mr Khan's Hum Saath Saath Hain co-stars - Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam - are charged with inciting the actor to hunt.

In November last year, the Rajasthan High Court ordered that Salman Khan's poaching conviction be suspended for visa purposes to make it easier for the actor, who had been denied an UK visa to shoot his film Kick, to travel abroad.
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