He was found guilty of killing two chinkaras or black bucks, a deer species, at Bhavad village in Rajasthan in 1998. Chief Judicial Magistrate B K Jain acquitted seven other accused in the case, including comedian Satish Shah.

Salman, 40, was present when the judgment was pronounced in the packed courtroom. He was convicted under the Wildlife Protection Act. The sentence will come into effect after one month.

Salman was charged with hunting chinkaras during the night of September 26-27, 1998 when he was in Jodhpur for the shooting of Sooraj Barjatya's Hum Saath Saath Hain. Salman and other actors starring in the film were booked by the Rajasthan forest department on charges of poaching endangered animals.

Image: Bollywood actor Salman Khan is escorted by policemen through a crowd outside Jodhpur District Court after it sentenced him to a year in jail and fined him Rupees 5,000 for shooting two rare black buck deer.
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

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