MUMBAI – Actor Salman Khan will be listed among the most notorious wildlifecriminals of the country on the website of the Wildlife Crime ControlBureau (WCCB), a government body that combats poaching and related offences.
Khan, 52, was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday for killing twoblackbucks, a protected species, in Rajasthan twenty years ago.
“Any person convicted in wildlife crime finds a place in the list ofconvicts on our website,” said Tolitama Varma, the additional director WCCB,
Khan’s name will be among 35 other convicts jailed for various crimes underthe Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. The convicts were found guilty ofpoaching tigers and smuggling pangolin scales and body parts, seahorse,snakes and other animals.
Black buck (Antelope cervicapra) is a Schedule I species under the act.
Native of India and extinct in Bangladesh, it is one of the species whichhas high conservation value in the country.