Bollywood star Salman Khan on Friday appeared in a court here for verification of his bail bonds in a case related to violation of the Arms Act.
The ill-legal arms case:
- Salman was to appear in the court of Jodhpur District and Sessions Judge, but he remained present in
- the court of Additional District Judge as the post of district judge is lying vacant.
- Salman, on reaching the court, produced and verified the personal bail bonds of Rs 20,000.
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- Additional Sessions Judge S.P. Parik after verification of documents as well as of the bail bonds,
- posted the matter for arguments on October 5.
- Salman remained in the court for hardly five minutes, during which the court asked him general
- questions in regard to his name and address, which he responded calmly.
- “It is a routine procedure of the court and every accused is required to appear before the appellate court once.
- We have also followed the procedure,” Salman’s advocate Hastimal Saraswat told the media.
- Asked if Salman will appear in court on October 5, Saraswat said he will definitely come if the court calls him.
- However, Saraswat denied personal appearance of Salman before the local court on Saturday in the case
- related to blackbuck poaching in which he is an accused along with several other Bollywood celebrities.
- 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”.
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- Salman is accused of carrying and using illegal arms also as he was alleged to have been carrying arms with expired licence.
- A case under different sections of the Arms Act was registered against him thereafter.
- Salman was acquitted by the Chief Judicial Magistrate in this case in January.