The Jodhpur Court will on Thursday pronounce the verdict in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case involving five Bollywood actors including Salman Khan. The actor is accused of killing two blackbucks in the Kankani village near Jodhpur in 1998 during the shooting of the film ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’.
The other actors involved in this case are Saif Ali, Sonali Bendre, Neelam, and Tabu. They have been charged under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
Final arguments of the case were completed in the trial court on March 28, after which chief judicial magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri had reserved the judgment for Thursday. The Jodhpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on March 25 under Jodhpur District Presiding Officer Devkumar Khatri issued the date for the judgment in the 20-year old case.