7th May, 2015 12:06pm
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The 2002 hit-&-run was not the only case Salman Khan was involved in.
Two more cases are pending against Khan in Jodhpur. While one is under the Arms Act, the other is under the Wildlife Protection Act.
Khan and a few other Bollywood stars were accused of poaching blackbucks on the midnight of October 1-2, 1998, during the shooting of the movie, Hum Saath Saath Hain. Two blackbucks, protected under the Wildlife Protection Act, were killed on the outskirts of Kankani village near Jodhpur.Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam are the other actors accused in the case.
Khan is also accused of carrying and using illegal arms. He is also alleged to have been carrying arms with an expired licence.
In 2006, Khan was convicted and sentenced under the Wildlife Protection Act by a Jodhpur magistrate in the blackbucks shooting case. The sentence was upheld by the sessions court in 2007. On August 31, 2007, the Rajasthan high court suspended the actor's sentence, but imposed a condition that he should not leave the country without the court's prior permission.
In November 2013, the Rajasthan HC altered its previous condition on travelling abroad.It also stayed the conviction after accepting Khan's submission that he would not be able to obtain a UK visa due to the conviction.
In January this year, the Supreme Court set aside the Rajasthan HC order of suspending Khan's conviction in the Blackbuck case. The apex court has asked HC to consider afresh Salman's plea on the issue of staying the conviction.
However, the trial for arms possession is not over yet.
In another brush against the law, a magistrate in Mumbai had directed the airport police in April to register an FIR against Khan for criminal intimidation and robbery . The court's directive came on a complaint filed by Ravindra Dwivedi, a member of Brashtachaar Nirmoolan Samiti, who had alleged that the actor and his bodyguard had assaulted him aboard a Mumbai-Delhi flight on November 4 last year.An airport police officer said Dwivedi was carrying documents regarding the death of a BJP leader when they were allegedly snatched from him by Khan and his bodyguard during the fight on flight.
Bombay High Court gives Salman Khan interim bail till Friday. An Indian judge found Bollywood superstar guilty on Wednesday of killing a homeless man in a 2002 hit-and-run after a night out drinking. He has been sentenced to 5 years in jail.
Judge D.W. Deshpande convicted the 49-year-old of culpable homicide for crashing his SUV into a group of homeless men in India's entertainment capital Mumbai and then fleeing the scene, according to an AFP journalist inside the courtroom.
Khan, who blamed his driver for the crash, faces a maximum of 10 years in prison and was expected to be taken into custody from the court.
Khan, star of blockbusters such as "Dabangg" (Fearless), was accused of driving his Toyota Land Cruiser into a group of homeless men sleeping rough in suburban Mumbai after spending the evening in an upmarket bar. One man was killed and several others were injured in the incident.
The trial began in earnest last year after a series of court hearings and legal hold-ups. A string of prosecution witnesses, including survivors of the crash, have testified that Khan was driving the vehicle when it ploughed at speed into the men sleeping on the street near a bakery in September 2002
When 49-year-old Khan finally took the stand in March, he pleaded not guilty and told the court that his driver was responsible for mounting the pavement in the upmarket suburb of Bandra West.
The driver testified in court last month that he had been behind the wheel, and that the crash occurred after the front left tyre burst, making steering and braking difficult
But a constable attached to Khan's security detail said in his statement to police that the drunk actor lost control of the car while driving at about 90 kph (55 mph).
"The people were sleeping on the footpath. Salman and (his cousin) Kamaal ran away from the spot," said the constable, who died in 2007 of tuberculosis. One of the sleeping labourers injured in the accident said in his statement that "Salman was so drunk he fell. He stood but he fell again and then he... ran away".
Khan's lawyers said the action and romantic comedy star had in fact been drinking water all evening and had climbed out of the driver's seat after the accident because the passenger side door had been damaged. They also said that the victim, Nurulah Mahbob Sharif, was killed during an operation to move the car, rather than the crash itself, when the bumper fell off and landed on him.
Salman Khan arrives at Mumbai airport ahead of his hit-and-run case.
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