Actor Salman Khan acquitted in poaching case

Jaipur: Bollywood star Salman Khan has been acquitted in the 18-year old blackbuck poaching case by the Rajasthan High Court on Monday.

Khan and seven others were accused of killing a blackbuck and chinkara in two separate incidents. 

"He has been acquitted in both the cases by the high court," Salman's counsel Hastimal Saraswat said.

One of the animals was killed at Bhawad on the outskirts of Jodhpur on September 26, 1998, and the other at Ghoda Farms on September 28, 1998.

At that time, they were shooting for the film "Hum Sath Sath Hain".

Salman had appealed before the high court challenging the lower court's verdict that had handed him one and five years' imprisonment, respectively, in the two separate cases of poaching.