Salman Khan And The Controversies In His Life
Salman Khan’s infamous blackbuck case:
Salman Khan ran into trouble with the law in 1998 when he was booked in four cases regarding poaching of blackbuck and chinkara. The actor was busy shooting for his film ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’. The media report stated that the entire cast of the film ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’ took a break including, Salman Khan, Sonali Bendre and Saif Ali Khan near Jodhpur and were alleged to go for hunting. The ‘Sultan’ actor was accused of poaching of two endangered black bucks in the outskirts of Jodhpur, Kankani, on 1-2 October 1998.
Apart from this, two separate cases were registered against the movie-actor under the Wildlife Protection Act for allegedly poaching three chinkaras in separate happening on September 26 and September 28, 1998. In the three poaching cases registered against him, the superstar even served the sentence twice in the Jodhpur Jail – in April 2006 and in August 2007.
He was also accused under the Arms Act for possessing illegal arms. However, Salman was declared free of all these charges in the Arms Act case against him by the Jodhpur Court today.