As the Rajasthan High Court acquits Salman Khan in the black buck and chinkara cases, we take you back to the poaching controversy that had swamped the Bollywood actor.
Khan, along with seven others, was accused of killing a black buck and a chinkara in two separate incidents.
One of the animals was killed on the outskirts of the city of Jodhpur on September 26, 1998, when the actor was shooting for his film Hum Saath Saath Hain.
The other was hunted at Ghoda Farms two days later.
On February 17, 2006, the actor was sentenced to one year in prison for hunting the already-endangered chinkara species. The sentence, however, was stayed after a high court appeal.
On April 10, 2006, Salman was sentenced to a five-year prison term and remanded to Jodhpur jail. He was granted bail three days later.
Six years later, on July 24, 2012, the Rajasthan High Court finalized charges against the actor and other accused in the black buck poaching case. This paved way for a trial.
The actor’s name has finally been cleared in both the cases by the Rajasthan High Court in Jodhpur.
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