Bollywood Star Salman Khan Faces Five-Year Jail Sentence
Filed under: Film News, News | By: Lucy
Posted on: August 24, 2007 | 1 Comment
An Indian Court has rejected an appeal by Bollywood star Salman Khan against a five-year prison sentence for a 1998 poaching case on Friday. This verdict will send the actor to jail.
The 2006 court ruling which has sentenced him to jail for poaching a chinkara (an endangered species of Gazelle) while shooing a film in Rajasthan state. Khan filed an appeal against the sentence.
This wasn’t his only conviction. Khan was convicted in 2006 for killing protected black buck antelopes and given a one-year prison sentence. He was granted bail while appealing that conviction.
Salman Khan wasn’t present when the verdict was announced. His lawyer has said, “His hotel room was booked but he couldn’t get a flight and was therefore held back,”
It is not known when Salman will be taken into custody. Prosecution lawyer Mahipal Bishnoi, speaking to a local news channel has said, ““Salman’s Khan’s advocate will now have to decide when he surrenders, I think he might surrender on Monday.”
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hi salman i just want to say that my small brother really like you and he always saying that plz sister can we go to the library to use a computer and tipe salman khan to see him pictures and the thing is that we havent got computer that why.
by take care of self