Click to play videoNew Delhi: Actor Salman Khan has been granted bail by the Jodhpur bench of Rajasthan High Court on Friday in the Chinkara poaching case.
Khan is expected to walk out of Jodhpur Central Jail by 1630 hours, IST and fly out to Mumbai in a chartered plane. He will be released on certain conditions including a bail amount of Rs 1 lakh.
The actor had filed a revision petition in the High Court against the sentence given to him by the sessions court. Khan will have to now appear before the court on October 24 for the hearing on that petition.
"For now, we will be collecting the certification from court for his release. We will then go to jail and get him released and hopefully take him back to Mumbai tonight. The High Court has suspended his prison term of five years but he will have to appear before it on October 24. The revision petition we had filed will come up for hearing then," said Khan's lawyer Deepesh Mehta.
The hearing on his bail plea had been deferred several times. When it came up after a string of holidays earlier this week, the Judge G K Vyas withdrew from the case, saying that as a lawyer, he had once represented one of Salman's co-accused in court.
Khan has been in Jodhpur Central Jail for the past seven days after a sessions court upheld his five-year jail term in the 1998 Chinkara poaching case.
The Rajasthan government had said earlier that it would oppose Khan’s bail plea.
Reacting to Khan's term suspension, animal activist Menaka Gandhi told CNN-IBN, "The bail is really appalling. He has got four more cases of poaching against him. I don't understand this judgement. We depended on the court but the court has let me down."
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