Salman Khan acquitted in poaching cases

The Rajasthan High Court on Monday acquitted Bollywood actor Salman Khan in two poaching cases from 18 years ago.

Khan had appealed to the Jodhpur bench of the high court challenging a lower court verdict, which sentenced him for poaching a blackbuck and a chinkara (a type of gazelle) in two separate incidents.

“He has been acquitted in both the cases by the high court,” Khan’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.

Shooting for the film Hum Saath Sath Hain was on at the time.