The Supreme Court on Monday put on hold proceedings pending against actor Salman Khan in cases registered under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act for alleged derogatory remarks against a community.
A bench of Chief Justice Deepak Misra, Justice A.M. Khanwilkar and Justice D.Y. Chandrachud also issued notice to states on the actor’s plea seeking quashing of several proceedings after complaints and FIRs were registered last year.
The bench sought the state governments’ response by July 23, the next date of the hearing.
The actor has been accused of humiliating the Valmiki community by using an offensive word to describe them on a TV show while promoting his film Tiger Zinda Hai.
Meanwhile, Khan arrived in the picturesque Sonamarg hill station in Jammu and Kashmir for a two-day shooting schedule of the Remo D’Souza-directed movie Race 3.
The action film is being produced jointly by Ramesh S. Taurani and Khan.
Race 3 will also feature Anil Kapoor, Bobby Deol, Jacqueline Fernandez, Daisy Shah and Saqib Saleem.
Like all Khan blockbusters, Race 3 is scheduled to be released during the Eid festival on June 15 in India.
Khan is likely to shoot for the movie in the Ladakh region after completing the schedule in Sonamarg.
Sonamarg is hosting the actor for a second time. He spent more than a fortnight in Sonamarg last time shooting for the Kabir Khan-directed hit Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
Sonamarg has been one of the most favoured shooting locales for Bollywood.
Raj Kapoor’s Ram Teri Ganga Meli and Yash Chopra’s Silsila are some of the better known movies shot in Sonamarg.
Fans of the superstar are likely to throng his shooting schedule in Sonamarg, thereby helping local hoteliers, tea vendors and pony owners.
