Have preferred an appeal to sessions court: Salman Khan's lawyer
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After Salman Khan was sentenced to a five-year jail term on Thursday in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case, his lawyer Anand Desai said that they will appeal to the Sessions court to seek relief for the actor.
The 52-year-old actor has been sent to the Jodhpur Central Jail for killing two blackbucks in October 1998.
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Decision came as a surprise: Salman's lawyer
Anand Desai said although they respected the court's verdict, the decision "came as a surprise" as the actor had been acquitted in the previous cases by Rajasthan High Court and CJM in the Arms Act matter which had the same facts as in this one.
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The court acquitted all other five co-accused
"The court has acquitted all the five co-accused which would imply that Salman was out hunting alone in the middle of the night in a remote area outside Jodhpur. We have preferred an appeal to Sessions court and applied for an urgent hearing today," Desai said.
"Sessions court will hear the appeal for suspension of the sentence/bail at 10.30 am tomorrow," he said.