Rajasthan High Court has exempted Hi-Fi (Hindi Film Industry) star Salman Khan from seeking permission from it for going abroad.
The exemption has been granted in a black buck poaching case, pending with the high court. However, Salman will still have to seek permission from lower courts, where other cases pertaining to antelopes poaching are pending. "We are in a process of seeking same exemption from the lower courts on the basis of this decision by the high court, so that Salman need not take the permission," his counsel H M Saraswat said.
A revision petition of Salman has been pending with the high court since 31 August, 2007, when it admitted his petition suspending the sentence in the case of poaching of Black Buck in 'Ghoda Farm' in Mathania near Jodhpur. But a condition was imposed that whenever Salman would go out of the country, he will have to seek permission from the court. "Since then, he has been regularly having permission from the court while going abroad and so far 33 such permissions have been granted by the court," Saraswat said.
He claimed that the actor never misused the liberty granted by the court and always exhibited compliance with this condition."On an average, it is a period of 10 days, that used to take in the process of the permission, which means a lot for a profession of the nature, Salman is in, said Saraswat.
"So, we filed petition before the court on 28 January, 2011," he reasoned. The petition prayed the condition in the operative part of the order dated 31 August, 2007 stating that prior permission has to be obtained for every travel to foreign country be removed/varied/modified.Considering the compliance of the condition by Salman, Justice Vineet Kothari, while hearing the petition, deleted this condition. "Now Salman will be free to go out of the country without any prior permission from the high court only in this particular case," Saraswat stated.
Salman was convicted by a lower court (CJM) on April 10, 2006, for the poaching of a Black Buck in Mathania on the intervening night of 28-29 September, 1998, under section 51 of the Wild Life Protection Act (1972) and was sentenced to 5.
Salman was convicted by a lower court (CJM) on April 10, 2006, for the poaching of a Black Buck in Mathania on the intervening night of 28-29 September, 1998, under section 51 of the Wild Life Protection Act (1972) and was sentenced to 5.
Source:IE
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