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Salman, Saif summoned in poaching case
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Jodhpur, December 10, 2012
First Published: 17:46 IST(10/12/2012)
Last Updated: 19:53 IST(10/12/2012)
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Actor Salman Khan at a city court in Jodhpur on Friday for hearing in the black buck killing case.
Salman Khan has been asked to appear in court on February 4, 2013 in connection with the 1998 Chinkara poaching case. The Jodhpur court directed actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam to appear on the same date, NDTV reported.

The lower court will frame charge under the
Wildlife Protection and Arms acts against Salman.

Salman, Saif and the other actors had been accused of hunting endangered chinkara and blackbuck deer while shooting 1999 film Hum Saath Saath Hain in Rajasthan.

Salman was sentenced to one-year imprisonment for killing two chinkaras in Bhawad village, near Jodhpur, on September 26, 1998. The sentence was handed down by a Jodhpur court February 17, 2006.

The court had found Salman guilty under Section 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. After his conviction, he spent three nights in Jodhpur Central Jail before the district and sessions court gave him bail.

Salman filed an appeal against the conviction on March 9, 2006.

(With inputs from IANS)


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Bollywood actor Salman Khan born as Abdul Rashid Salim Salman Khan on 27 December 1965) has starred in more than 80 Hindi films. Khan, who made his acting debut with a minor role in the drama...

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