Salman khan is now Qaidi no. 106, refuses chane ki daal, sleeps on floor

Salman khan is now Qaidi no. 106, refuses chane ki daal, sleeps on floor

Jodhpur: Bollywood's biggest superstar Salman Khan, who was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison on Thursday in a blackbuck poaching case dating back to 1998, will not receive any VVIP treatment in the Jodhpur Jail, DIG, prisons, Vikram Singh said.

"Salman has been given number 106 & is lodged in Ward number 2. He was made to undergo medical test & has no medical issues. He hasn't made any demands. We'll give him jail uniform on Friday morning. Multiple-layer security has been put up for his ward," Singh said.

Jodhpur jail officials said Salman had not eaten anything post the verdict and even refused to have tea. He was given a cauliflower and potato vegetable dish, chane ki daal and a chappati, which he did not eat.

They added that Salman would sleep on the floor on Thursday night. They added that his BP had shot up after the verdict but it soon returned to normal.

Salman Khan's lawyer Anand Desai said that the actor's bail hearing is scheduled for 10.30am on Earlier on Thursday, Jodhpur district presiding officer Dev Kumar Khatri pronounced Salman guilty of killing two blackbucks an endangered species during a hunting expedition near Jodhpur in 1998. A penalty of Rs 10,000 was also imposed on him.

However, the judge acquitted co-accused Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Neelam Kothari and Tabu for lack of evidence.

The actors were accused of killing the blackbucks in Kankani village near Jodhpur on the intervening night of October 1 and 2, 1998, when they were in the city shooting for the film "Hum Saath Saath Hain"

JODHPUR: Bollywood actor Salman Khan was on Saturday released from the Jodhpur jail after being granted bail by a district and sessions court in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case in which he was sentenced to five years in jail.
Immediately after his release, Khan, 52, was driven under police escort to the Jodhpur airport, a police official said.

Khan walked out of the jail after the prison authorities received the court papers granting him bail, the official said.

Earlier, district and sessions judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi allowed Khan's plea for bail and suspension of sentence for a month to allow him to appeal against his conviction and sentence.

Khan, who had spent two nights in the Jodhpur Central Jail after his sentencing on Thursday, was granted bail on a bond of Rs 50,000 and two sureties of like amount, defence counsel Mahesh Bora said.

Earlier in the day, the judge heard the arguments of prosecution and defence which lasted for about an hour and pronounced the order at around 3 pm, a defence counsel said.