Mumbai, Jul 30: Black Buck case seems to be coming back to haunt Salman Khan. A case was registered with Rajasthan court 14yrs back with Salman being made accused in shooting of Black bucks. The Rajasthan High Court changed the charges against him, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam and Sonali Bendre and made them more severe yesterday . This judgement was against Salman and others including the Rajasthan state govt which argued against a sessions court order that said some of the charges should be dropped. The HC overturned the sessions court order and stated that Salman should be charged under Section 51 of the Wildlife Act and Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code (Unlawful Assembly)..
These actors have been charged of poaching two Black Bucks in the overriding night of first-second October in 1998 in Kankani village near Jodhpur during the shooting of 'Hum Saath Saath Hain'.
Government counsel Mahipal Bishnoi said that now all the accused will have to appear in the trial court to hear the revised charges and for resumption of the trial. Earlier Salman Khan has been convicted for 1 year and 5 years for poaching of two Chinkaras at Bhawad and one Black Buck at Ghoda Farm (Mathania) in the intervening nigh of 26-27 September, 1998 and 28-29 September, 1998 respectively.