MUMBAI – Bollywood superstar Salman Khan will have to spend another nightin jail as a court reserved its verdict on the actor’s bail appeal onFriday.
Reserving its verdict, the court adjourned the Bollywood actor’s bailhearing till tomorrow (Saturday).
Salman was arrested on Thursday after he was given a five-jail term by aJodhpur court which found him guilty in a 1998 black buck poaching case.
India’s most recognisable and bankable actor was found guilty of huntingtwo black bucks while working on the film *Hum Saath Saath Hain *in 1998.
Earlier in a statement, Salman’s lawyer Anand Desai said,”We respect thedecision of the Hon’ble Court. While we are studying the judgement it justcame as a surprise, as the investigation, and facts of this case were thesame as those for which Salman has been acquitted by the Hon’ble High Courtof Rajasthan in two cases, and even by the Hon’ble CJM in the Arms Actmater for the alleged offence on the very same night as is the subjectmatter of the present case.
Also, in the present case the Hon’ble Court has acquitted all the 5co-accused which would imply that Salman was out hunting alone in themiddle of the night in a remote area outside Jodhpur.”
According to reports in the Indian media, the jail where Salman was beingheld was under heavy security. He also spent the night alone in the celland nobody was allowed to meet him.