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Actor Salman Khan arrived in Jodhpur to record his statement in court in the Arms Act case against him connected to the poaching of two chinkara deer and a blackbuck. Mr Khan was summoned by the Chief Judicial Magistrate after being exempted from appearing in court till now.
“Salman has been asked to appear personally before the court on January 29,” Mr Khan’s counsel Hastimal Saraswat told news agency IANS on January 16.
The actor is accused of hunting and killing the endangered deer while shooting his film Hum Saath Saath Hain in Rajasthan in 1998. He has already twice spent time in the Jodhpur jail in connection to the case, in 1998 and again in 2007.
Mr Khan’s Hum Saath Saath Hain co-stars – Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam – are charged with inciting the actor to hunt.
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