The prosecution sought more time to go
through the blackbuck poaching case papers after Salman Khan’s lawyers
presented their arguments on Friday. The hearing will resume on Saturday.
A local court in Rajasthan’s Jodhpur on Friday adjourned Salman Khan’s bail hearing in the 1998
blackbuck poaching case to Saturday and summoned the record of the trial from
the lower court, his lawyers said.
Salman Khan, lodged in
Jodhpur Central jail after being handed a five-year imprisonment for poaching
the two blackbucks at Kankani village, has also challenged the chief judicial
magistrate court’s verdict and sought suspension of the sentence.
District and sessions court
judge Ravindra Joshi listed his bail plea for a hearing on Saturday after the
52-year-old actor’s counsel moved an application that included 54 grounds
challenging the lower court’s verdict.
“We told the court that the
trial court has ignored many facts in its decision,” Khan’s counsel Mahesh Bora
said.
Bora said Khan has fulfilled
all the orders of the court, so his sentence should be suspended and he should
be granted bail.
A copy of Khan’s application
under section 389 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) was handed over to
public prosecutor Pokarram Bishnoi on the court’s direction.
Public prosecutor Bishnoi told the court that the trial court’s
records should be summoned before deciding on the suspension of the sentence.
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