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Salman Khan arrives in Jodhpur for bail hearing in blackbuck poaching case

Press Trust of India, Jodhpur | ByPress Trust of India
May 06, 2018 08:17 PM IST

While granting bail to Salman Khan on April 7, the judge had asked the actor to appear before the court after a month on May 7 when it would hear his plea for suspension of sentence.

Bollywood star Salman Khan arrived in Jodhpur on Sunday for the hearing of his application before a sessions judge challenging the trial court order sentencing him to a five-year jail term in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case.

Actor Salman Khan arrives at Jodhpur airport on May 6.(IANS Photo)
Actor Salman Khan arrives at Jodhpur airport on May 6.(IANS Photo)

The application is listed for hearing tomorrow before Jodhpur District and Sessions Judge Chandra Kumar Songara, the actor’s counsel Nishant Bora said.

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Fifty-two-year-old Khan reached Jodhpur Sunday afternoon from Mumbai by a regular flight, a police official said.

He is accompanied by his sister Alvira, bodyguard Shera and some others, he said.

Khan was driven from driven straight from the airport to a five-star hotel, the official said.

The actor will be present in the court during the hearing of his appeal, his counsel said.

Khan was released from the Jodhpur jail, where he spent two nights, on April 7 after then District and Sessions Judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi granted him bail in the case.

In a late evening order on April 6, Joshi was transferred to Sirohi as part of a reshuffle carried out by the Rajasthan High Court. He was replaced by Songara.

In his order granting bail, Joshi had allowed Khan’s application for suspension of sentence for a month against his conviction.

The judge had asked the actor to appear before the court after a month on May 7 when it would hear his plea for suspension of sentence. He also directed Khan not to leave the country without the court’s permission.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri had on April 5 sentenced Khan to five years in prison for killing two blackbucks during the shooting of “Hum Saath Saath Hain” in Kankani village near Jodhpur on the night of October 1, 1998.

The trial court had acquitted his Bollywood colleagues Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre and a local, Dushyant Singh, giving them the “benefit of doubt” for the incident.

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