Bollywood actor Salman Khan was acquitted by the Rajasthan High Court in an 18-year-old in the Jodhpur blackbuck and chinkara poaching cases.
Khan, 50,was accused of killing a blackbuck and a chinkara in two separate incidents in 1998. The Reuters reported, “We have got absolute relief in both cases,” Khan’s counsel Nishant Bora said.
A lower court found him guilty of killing an endangered species of gazelle in 2006 and sentenced him to one and five years in jail for the two cases of poaching.
Khan challenged the convictions in the sessions court, which dismissed appeal in Mathania's case and transferred appeal to high court in Bhawad's case, where already two appeals by the state government had been pending.
Hearing on both these petition in high court had begun on November 16, 2015 and were completed on May 13, 2016, after which justice Nirmal Jit Kaur had reserved her judgement.
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