Salman Khan was arrested today shortly after he landed here from Mumbai to surrender in the blackbuck poaching case in which he lost an appeal against a five-year jail term given by a lower court.He was picked up from the airport by a police team headed by Additional Superintendent of Police Sawai Singh Godhara when he arrived by a Jet Airways flight accompanied by his brother Sohail and lawyer Dipesh Mehta.His lawyers argued with the police that he wanted to surrender but the law-enforcers said they had a court warrant and they had to execute it.Khan, wearing a white T-shirt, cargo pants and sporting sunglasses, was soon taken in a police jeep to the court, which issued the non-bailable warrant since he was not present in the sessions court that had rejected his appeal against the conviction in the 1998 case.A huge crowd, mostly his fans, had collected before the court apparently to have a glimpse of the 41-year-old actor.Updated at 1140 hrs: Salman Khan will be surrendering today before a Jodhpur court after a non-bailable warrant was issued against him following the dismissal of his appeal against a five-year jail term given to him for poaching the endangered chinkara."He will be flying to Jodhpur and surrender before a court there," his lawyer Dipesh Mehta told PTI here.Speaking to reporters before getting into his SUV outside his residence, Salman said: "A warrant has been apparently issued and as per advice from my lawyers, I am going to Jodhpur to surrender. Nobody has told me to get there but I am going there as a responsible citizen who abides by the law."A sessions court in Jodhpur yesterday upheld a lower court's judgement of April 2006 sentencing Salman to prison in the 1998 poaching case.The court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, which had convicted Salman last year, issued the non-bailable warrant against him yesterday afternoon and sent it to the police for execution."We have informed authorities in Jodhpur about the surrender," Mehta said.
