Blackbuck poaching case: Salman Khan skips local court hearing
Jodhpur, Sep 27: Actor Salman Khan on Friday did not appear before a local court here in connection with the blackbuck poaching case.
Khan's counsel moved two applications in the court, one for his exemption from the court on Friday and the other for permanent exemption from personal appearance.
The court accepted the application for exemption from appearing today and posted the matter for hearing on the second application of permanent exemption on December 19, Hastimal Saraswat, counsel for Salman Khan told reporters.
He said the ground for not appearing on Friday was his engagement in a film's shooting.
A gangster has threatened to kill Salman by posting a death threat on Facebook.
Salman Khan had filed a plea against his conviction by a lower court, which had sentenced him to five years in jail.
During a hearing on July 4, Sessions Court Judge Chandra Kumar Songara had directed him to appear before the court on September 27, failing which his bail plea may be cancelled.
Khan is accused of killing two blackbucks during the shooting of a film in Jodhpur in 1998.
Jodhpur: Bollywood actor Salman Khans lawyer Mahesh Bora seen at the Jodhpur District and Sessions Court for a hearing in blackbuck poaching case, in Jodhpur.
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Congress using hijab issue to pacify minority anger, alleges Karnataka LoP R Ashoka
Bengaluru: Leader of Opposition in the Assembly R. Ashoka has accused the Congress government of using the hijab issue to placate what he described as discontent among minority voters after the Davanagere by-election.
In a post on X on Wednesday, Ashoka alleged that the state government, instead of addressing issues such as price rise, corruption, farmers’ distress and law and order, was attempting to retain its minority vote base by reviving the hijab issue.
Referring to the 2022 dress code introduced by the BJP government, which prohibited hijab in schools and colleges, Ashoka said the Karnataka High Court had upheld the policy and emphasised the importance of discipline in educational institutions.
He questioned the Congress government’s move to revisit the issue and asked whether setting aside the court-backed policy to benefit one community could be described as secularism.
Ashoka further alleged that while the government was willing to permit hijab, it continued to prohibit saffron shawls.
He accused the government of dividing students on religious lines rather than treating schools and colleges as spaces of equality.
Drawing a comparison with Mamata Banerjee’s government in West Bengal, Ashoka claimed that excessive appeasement politics had harmed the state and warned that the Congress in Karnataka could face a similar political response.
He said voters in Karnataka would teach the Congress a lesson for what he termed “vote-bank politics” and for compromising constitutional and judicial principles.
