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| Bollywood star in poaching appeal | Bollywood star in poaching appeal |
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| Bollywood star Salman Khan has appeared in court in Jodhpur to appeal against a sentence for poaching. | |
| Khan has asked the court to set aside a five-year jail term, issued in April 2006 for hunting a protected gazelle on a trip to Rajasthan in 1998. | |
| Khan was sentenced by the same court in February 2006 to one year for killing two protected black buck antelopes during a separate hunting trip in 1998. | |
| Khan, one of Bollywood's top actors, is on bail and denies any wrongdoing. | |
| He appeared before the chief judicial magistrate at the Jodhpur court on Monday. Proceedings will continue on Tuesday when the prosecution will present its case. | |
| The court had found Khan guilty of killing a gazelle in September 1998 while he was shooting a film in the area. | |
| The poaching cases are not Salman Khan's only brush with the law. | |
| He is also facing trial in Mumbai (Bombay) in a 2002 hit-and-run case. | |
| One person was killed and three others injured when Khan allegedly drove into a group of homeless people sleeping on a pavement. | One person was killed and three others injured when Khan allegedly drove into a group of homeless people sleeping on a pavement. |
| Khan faces 10 charges, including causing death by negligent driving which carries two years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty on all counts. | Khan faces 10 charges, including causing death by negligent driving which carries two years in prison. He has pleaded not guilty on all counts. |