The Jodhpur District Court heard the plea of Salman Khan against his conviction in the Blackbuck Poaching case. The District Court has now fixed August 3rd and 4th for further hearing of the case.
The
Jodhpur
District
Court
heard
the
plea
of
Salman
Khan
against
his
conviction
in
the
Blackbuck
Poaching
case
and
the
District
and
Sessions
Judge,
Chandra
Kumar
Sonagara
fixed
August
3rd
and
4th
for
further
hearing
of
the
case.
The
hearing
was
held
yesterday
on
July
17
and
the
appeal
went
on
for
three
hours
before
and
after
lunch
hours.
Salman
Khan's
lawyer
Mahesh
Bora
is
confident
that
his
client
will
be
acquitted
in
the
coming
hearings.
It
is
reported
that
defence
lawyer
Mahesh
Bora
cited
two
similar
cases
of
Blackbuck
poaching
and
connected
it
to
Salman
Khan's
acquittal
by
the
Rajasthan
High
Court.
He
contended
that
these
two
cases
had
similar
evidence,
documents
and
similar
prosecution
stories,
and
adding
that
Salman
Khan
should
should
not
be
held
guilty
in
the
case.
Also,
in
the
previous
hearing,
Salman
Khan's
lawyer
Hastimal
Saraswat
submitted
an
application
to
the
District
Court
arguing
that
the
Blackbuck
Poaching
case
and
the
Arms
Act
case
should
be
heard
together,
since
both
the
cases
were
similar
in
nature
and
had
common
witnesses.
However,
a
source
informed
that
as
per
the
court
process,
the
Arms
Act
case
hearing
will
start
only
after
Blackbuck
Poaching
case
hearing
ends.
Salman
Khan
is
accussed
of
shooting
and
killing
two
blackbucks
in
the
Kankani
village
near
Jodhpur,
Rajasthan
on
October
1,
1998,
during
the
shooting
of
the
movie
Hum
Saath
Saath
Hain.
His
co-stars
Saif
Ali
Khan,
Sonali
Bendre,
Tabu
and
Neelam
were
also
accused
in
the
case.
However
all
of
them
were
acquitted
by
the
court
of
Chief
Judicial
Magistrate,
Jodhpur
Rural
on
April
6,
2018.