Salman Khan Acquitted By Jodhpur Court In 1998 Arms Act Case

Bollywood actor Salman Khan was on Wednesday acquitted by a court in an over 18-year-old Arms Act case. Chief Judicial Magistrate Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit, after completing the hearing on 9 January in a case registered in 1999, had reserved judgement for Wednesday.

''Salman Khan acquitted in the Arms Act case after the prosecution failed to provide conclusive evidence,'' Salman Khan's lawyer told ANI. Welcoming the court’s decision, Khan’s lawyer said that that actor was after the prosecution failed to provide conclusive evidence to the court.

Salman and a few other Bollywood actors were accused of poaching blackbucks on the midnight of October 1-2, 1998, during the shooting of Hindi movie "Hum Saath Saath Hain". Khan was accused of carrying and using illegal arms with an expired licence. A case under the Arms Act was registered against him.

The Rajasthan High Court in July 2016, had acquitted Salman in another case related to chinkara poaching. Salman had appealed before the Jodhpur bench of the high court challenging a lower court's verdict in 2006 that handed him a one and five-year term in the two separate cases of poaching.

With inputs from IANS