Rajasthan: Black buck case hearing deferred to March 30

JODHPUR

: Hearing on the state government’s appeal challenging the acquittal of co-accused in black buck poaching case will now take place on March 30. After the counsel for the co-accused sought time to argue the case, the court deferred the hearing on Monday.


Salman Khan was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the trial court on April 5, 2018 for poaching two black bucks in Kankani on October 1-2, 1998, while the co-accused Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabbu, Neelam and a local

Dushyant

Singh had been acquitted by the court giving all of them the benefit of doubt. The state government had moved the session court filing a Leave to Appeal against the acquittal of all the five co-accused.

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