Bollywood star Salman Khan sentenced to five years for killing antelopes
by Michael Safi in Delhi from on (#3KZC4)
Actor says he will appeal against sentence after being convicted of poaching blackbucks in 1998
The Bollywood superstar Salman Khan has been sentenced to five years in jail for poaching a protected species of Indian antelope, in the latest twist to an off-screen life almost as dramatic as the epics he has starred in.
A court in Rajasthan state on Thursday found Khan, one of the world's best-paid actors, guilty of illegally hunting the two blackbucks from his car window while filming in Jodhpur in 1998.
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