After spending two nights in jail, Indian actor Salman Khan has secured bail over poaching rare antelope, report Indian media.
NDTV says the Bollywood superstar is set to walk out of jail as a Jodhpur court has ordered his release on bail.
The court has ordered a bail bond for 50,000 Indian rupees as well as to produce a surety of 25,000 Indian rupees for two persons who will act as guarantors, says the NDTV report.
Quoting Salman’s counsels, it said that the bail documents are expected to reach the jail by 5pm and he could be released by the next one or two hours.
The 52-year-old, however, has been barred from flying abroad without the court’s permission.
On Thursday (Apr 5), the court sentenced him to five years in prison for the 1998 killing of two blackbucks, a protected species, in the western state of Rajasthan, where he had for shooting a film.
The court acquitted four other actors— Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam Kothari and Sonal Bendre, who starred with Salman in the movie and had been charged with the same offence.
The BBC says the actor could face between one and six year in jail, but can appeal against the verdict.
It’s the fourth case filed against Salman over poaching animals during filming of the 1998 movie ‘Hum Saath Saath Hain’ and he has been acquitted in three of those cases.
In 2015, he was cleared in a 2002 hit-and-run case in which a homeless man died.
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