Salman gets five years in jail for poaching
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A district court here in Rajasthan Friday upheld the punishment
of five years given to Bollywood actor Salman Khan by a lower court
for shooting a chinkara deer in 1998, a lawyer said. Salman Khan
was not present in the district and sessions court when the judge
gave the ruling.
Salman had in April 2006 filed an appeal against the ruling of
chief judicial magistrate who sentenced the actor to five years
rigorous imprisonment and fined him Rs.25,000 for poaching a
chinkara, an endangered species.
Salman was then taken to Jodhpur Central Jail where he spent three
nights before the district and sessions court gave him bail.
"An arrest warrant will be issued by the court. So either Salman
should surrender or he will be arrested," Mahipal Vishnoi, lawyer
for the Bishnoi community, which along with the state government
filed the case against Salman, told IANS.
The actor has been found guilty under Section 51 of the Wildlife
Protection Act.
Salman and his friends were accused of poaching a chinkara at Ghoda
near Jodhpur on the night of Sep 28, 1998 while filming for Sooraj
Barjatiya's blockbuster 'Hum Saath Saath Hain'.
A case was registered against Salman and five others under sections
143, 144, 148 and 201 read with 149 of the Indian Penal Code,
sections 51 and 52 of the Wildlife Protection Act and section 27 of
the Indian Arms Act Oct 11, 1988.
Indo-Asian News Service
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