Was sentenced with Five Year Jail by Sessions Court.

Rajasthan High Court gave a huge relief to Bollywood Actor Salman Khan as it acquitted him today in the Blackbuck and Chinkara poaching cases of Jodhpur.

Salman was accused of killing Blackbuck and Chinkara in two separate incidents in September 1998.

An Appealed was filed before the Rajasthan High Court for challenging the Sessions Court's verdict which convicted and sentenced him to one and five years in jail respectively for the two poaching cases.

The Rajasthan High Court had completed hearing in the cases in the last week of May itself but reserved its decision.

Salman Khan was accused of and chargesheeted for killing the animals in Bhawad in the outskirts of Jodhpur City on September 26, 1998, and at Ghoda Farms on September 28, 1998.

The alleged incidents happened during shooting for the film "Hum Sath Sath Hain" in Jodhpur.

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