Salman Khan

  • NewsThe Independent

    Bollywood star Salman Khan granted bail as he appeals five year poaching sentence

    Bollywood star Salman Khan has been granted bail while he appeals the five year jail sentence that he was handed after being convicted in a 20-year-old poaching case. One of the highest paid actors in the world, Khan was convicted of the 1998 shooting two rare blackbuck deer from his car window at a wildlife preserve near the city of Jodhpur, in the country's north west. Public prosecutors alleged that the 52-year-old and four other actors in the car with him fled the scene, leaving the carcas

  • NewsAssociated Press

    Indian court acquits actor Salman Khan of using illegal arms

    NEW DELHI (AP) — Top Bollywood star Salman Khan was acquitted by a court on Wednesday on a charge of using unlicensed weapons while hunting for rare blackbucks in a western India wildlife preserve 18 years ago.