Salman Khan will have to appear in court in connection with 1998's Chinkara poaching case on February 4, 2013, a Jodhpur court has ruled. Actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam have also been directed to appear.
The lower court will frame charge under the Wildlife Protection and Arms acts against Salman.
Salman, Saif and the other actors are accused of hunting endangered chinkara and blackbuck deer while shooting 1999 film Hum Saath Saath Hain in Rajasthan.
Salman was sentenced to one-year imprisonment for killing two chinkaras in Bhawad village, near Jodhpur, on September 26, 1998. The sentence was handed down by a Jodhpur court February 17, 2006.
The court had found Salman guilty under Section 51 of the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972. After his conviction, he spent three nights in Jodhpur Central Jail before the district and sessions court gave him bail.
Salman filed an appeal against the conviction March 9, 2006.
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