Salman gets bail, back in Mumbai as fans celebrate
◗ The court has restrained Salman from leaving the country. The next hearing in the case will take place on May 7.
After spending two nights in Jodhpur jail, Bollywood star Salman Khan walked out on bail on Saturday in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case in which he was held guilty and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.
Accepting Mr Khan’s application for suspension of his five- year jail sentence for a month, district and sessions judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi granted him bail on a personal bond of ` 50,000 and two sureties of ` 25,000 each. The court has restrained Mr Khan from leaving the country.
The next hearing in the case will take place on May 7 and Mr Khan will have to be present in court that day.
Ecstatic fans burst firecrackers and sang songs from his films as Mr Khan, 52, stepped out of prison. He reached his Mumbai home by evening where a frenzied crowd greeted him.
Mr Khan was arrested in court on Thursday after the trial court held him guilty of killing two blackbucks during the shooting of Hum Saath Hain Saath in Kankani village near Jodhpur on October 1, 1998.
The Bishnoi community, which reveres the blackbuck, has decided to move the Rajasthan high court challenging the bail granted to Mr Khan, according to Ram Niwas, the secretary of the Bishnoi Tiger Force.
The actor’s sisters, Alvira and Arpita, and bodyguard Shera were present in court when judge Joshi heard arguments of the prosecution