Salman Khan blackbuck poaching case HIGHLIGHTS: Salman waves at fans at his Mumbai residence. He got bail in blackbuck poaching case on Saturday. (Express Photo by Varinder Chawla) Salman Khan blackbuck poaching case HIGHLIGHTS: Salman waves at fans at his Mumbai residence. He got bail in blackbuck poaching case on Saturday. (Express Photo by Varinder Chawla)

Salman Khan blackbuck poaching case HIGHLIGHTS: After spending two nights at Jodhpur Central Jail, Salman Khan got bail in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case on Saturday. A district and sessions court in Jodhpur granted bail to the actor who was lodged at the Jodhpur Central Jail after being sentenced to five years of imprisonment in the case. The actor has been granted bail on the condition that he will have to produce two sureties worth Rs 25,000 and a bail bond of Rs 50,000.

Salman was sentenced to five years imprisonment for killing two blackbucks in Kankani village, near Jodhpur, during the shooting of “Hum Saath Saath Hain”.

Salman’s counsel had on Friday moved a petition in the court for bail and suspension of sentence. The hearing was adjourned on Friday, and deferred to Saturday after district and sessions judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi called for records pertaining to the trial court judgment.

Meanwhile, public prosecutor Pokhar Ram Bishnoi said this case should not be seen in the same way with the ones in which Khan has been acquitted by the High Court. “This case shouldn’t be seen in the same way with the ones in which Khan has been acquitted by the High Court. The second postmortem report clearly states the animal died of gunshot wounds and the fact that the eyewitness stuck to his statements throughout the trial shows that our case is strong,” he said.

Besides a five-year jail term, Salman was imposed a fine of Rs 10,000. Meanwhile, he was escorted to the Jodhpur airport by police in the afternoon from where he left for Mumbai. He reached Mumbai in the evening.

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