Salman Khan to feature among India's most notorious criminals
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MUMBAI - Actor Salman Khan will be listed among the most notorious wildlife criminals of the country on the website of the Wildlife Crime Control Bureau (WCCB), a government body that combats poaching and related offences.
Khan, 52, was sentenced to five years in jail on Thursday for killing two blackbucks, a protected species, in Rajasthan twenty years ago.
“Any person convicted in wildlife crime finds a place in the list of convicts on our website,” said Tolitama Varma, the additional director WCCB,
Khan’s name will be among 35 other convicts jailed for various crimes under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. The convicts were found guilty of poaching 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 which has high conservation value in the country.
