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Blackbuck case: Court to announce verdict next week

CJM court will announce the verdict in the Salman Khan and other actors alleged in the blackbuck case on April 5.The Jodhpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Wednesday under Jodhpur District Presiding Officer Devkumar Khatri issued the date for the decision in the 20-year-old black deer hunting case.

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CJM court will announce the verdict in the Salman Khan and other actors alleged in the blackbuck case on April 5.The Jodhpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Wednesday under Jodhpur District Presiding Officer Devkumar Khatri issued the date for the decision in the 20-year-old black deer hunting case.

Salman, along with Saif Ali Khan, Neelam, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Dushyant Singh are all accused in the case. During the shooting of Sooraj Barjatya’s movie, ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’ in 1999, Salman allegedly went on a shooting expedition along with Saif, Neelam, Bendre, and Tabu, killing two blackbucks in Kankani village in Rajasthan.

Following protests by the local Bishnoi community, a case was later filed against Salman and the other actors. The court trial was going on in this case for the last several years. During the argument on Wednesday, Public Prosecutor Bhavani Singh presented the answer on the legal points. With this, the final arguments of all parties were completed. The CJM had fixed the date for the decision in this matter after the completion of the legal debate by state advocate Bhavani Singh Bhati’s on Wednesday. Salman Khan appeared in the court during final arguments in a case against him for the alleged poaching of two blackbucks in village Kankani on October 2, 1998. According to Khan’s counsel H M Saraswat, the accused has to remain present in the court during final arguments and they had been seeking an exemption for the actor till now.

Can get imprisonment for six years Under Section 149 of the Wild Life Act, there is a provision of a maximum prison sentence of seven years for hunting black deer. While there was a provision of six years punishment till a few years ago. This deer hunting case is of 1998. In such a case, the provision of the maximum sentence of six years imprisonment will apply. 

—with agency inputs

As Per Sources

  • After the completion of the prosecution’s arguments on October 23, we began our arguments on October 28 last year and completed on February 4.
  • Final arguments in the case began on September 13 last year with the prosecution counsel citing the statements of the eyewitnesses of the case. Salman was acquitted in two poaching cases by the high court and in a case under Arms Act by the lower court.

 

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