Salman Khan gets bail in Blackbuck poaching case

ANI  |  Jodhpur (Rajasthan) [India] 

has been granted by Court in connection with the Black buck poaching case.

The plea was heard in a court on Saturday regarding the actor's conviction for five years in the endangered species' poaching case.

Earlier, the hearing was supposed to happen on Friday, but was rescheduled to the next day due to the transfer of 88 judges by the

The had on Thursday appealed for a following his conviction in the 20-year-old case.

Salman was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of killing two blackbucks in during the shooting of his movie 'Hum Saath Saath Hain' in 1998.

The other four accused - actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam, and - were acquitted in the case.

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First Published: Sat, April 07 2018. 15:20 IST