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Salman Khan convicted in 1998 Chinkara poaching case, faces 6 yrs in jail

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Salman Khan, who was freed in Mumbai drunken drive case, was convicted in another case of blackbuck poaching in Jodhpur, on Thursday, April 5.

Two local Bishnoi people regard the animal as their deity and the man who chased poachers on motorcycle, identified and fought the case relentless for 20 years since 1998 against Bollywood celebrities. Under section 9/51 of Wildlife Act, Salman Khan faces up to 6 years jail term now.

Other actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre, Neelam, and a local resident Dushyant Singh were tried for abatement but are aquitted. Salman Khan appeared before the court on Thursday in the two-decade-old blackbuck (chinkara) poaching case, and was told by the court that he was convicted. The sentence will be pronounced tomorrow, Friday, April 6, 2018.

Salman Khan is currently busy with the shooting for his upcoming film Race 3 in Dubai and he took a day off to attend the court hearing. Salman’s sisters Arpita and Alvira arrived at the Jodhpur court and soon Saif, Bendre and Tabu joined them.

Before the verdict, Remo D’Souza, the director of Race 3, told New18, "Salman never talks about the case while shooting for his films. Same was the case during Abu Dhabi schedule of Race 3 after which the actor left for the verdict. The unit and everyone associated with his big Eid release is hoping for a closure to this long stretched case with a favorable verdict."

JEE Counselling for IITs Stopped Over PIL

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The IIT-JEE (Advance) 2017 counselling process for IIT admissions has been restrained by the Supreme Court following a PIL alleging that the bonus marks were wrongly awarded to candidates.

The bench of Justices Dipak Misra and A M Khanwilkar passed orders restraining counselling for admissions to the IITs which was supposed to begin on Friday. The plea by some students had pointed out that there were was an error in the Hindi version of the question papers of chemistry and mathematics.

Grace marks were given to all candidates irrespective of whether the student attempted the question or not. They pleaded that this was unfair and affected their prospects. The bench has also restrained high courts from entertaining any petition related to the issue.

Out of 36,000 seats in 97 institutes, 29,425 candidates have accepted the allotted seats so far. The joint admission board of the IITs told the court that a committee of experts had decided to give bonus marks and any delay at this after evaluating all options.

The board was also apprehensive that a judicial intervention at this stage would create hurdles to the entire admission process.