A court in Rajasthan today deferred till March 3 its verdict on whether actor Salman Khan is guilty in an arms case in connection with the Black Buck and Chinkara killing of 1998.
Khan was convicted in 2007 for hunting and killing two endangered Chinkara Deer and one Black Buck in Rajasthan in 1998. He has spent time in a Jodhpur jail twice. Both animals are protected and killing them is a punishable offence.
In 2007, he was sentenced to five years in jail and is currently out on bail in the case.
But in 2013, the Rajasthan High Court suspended the conviction to make it easier for the actor to travel to the United Kingdom to shoot for a film.
Khan's visa has since lapsed and under British immigration rules, a person convicted and sentenced to more than a four-year term in prison is not eligible for a visa.
The Rajasthan Government had later challenged the High Court's order suspending the actor's conviction.