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Salman Khan and the infamous black buck poaching case is back in action.
Salman was convicted for shooting and killing blackbucks in Kankani village near Jodhpur on October 1, 1998, during the shooting of ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’.
Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, and Neelam Kothari Soni were also accused in the Blackbuck Poaching case. However, apart from Salman, everyone else was acquitted by the trial court on the grounds of ‘benefit of the doubt’.
Back in 1998, when he was briefly arrested in the Black Buck case, Khan also had a case under Arms Act registered against him. And the court had asked him to submit his arms licence.
In 2003, the Dabangg actor submitted an affidavit in the court in 2003, saying that he had ‘lost his arms licence’ and also lodged an FIR at the Bandra police station for the same. However, the court later came to know that Salman’s arms licence was not lost, but had been submitted for renewal!
Public prosecutor Bhavani Singh Bhati had then demanded that a case of misleading the court should be filed against Salman.
On Tuesday, Salman had appeared before the Jodhpur Sessions Court via video conferencing – to appeal against conviction in the blackbuck poaching case. As reported by TOI, during the hearing, Salman apologised for submitting a fake affidavit in the Jodhpur session court in 2003.
His lawyer Hastimal Saraswat told the court that the actor should be forgiven as the affidavit was ‘mistakenly submitted’ since Salman had forgotten his license had been given for renewal!
Saraswat said, “The affidavit was mistakenly given on August 8, 2003, as Salman had forgotten that his licence was given for renewal because he was too busy. Therefore, he mentioned that the licence had gone missing in the court.”
The final verdict in the case will be pronounced on Thursday, February 11, 2021.
