New Delhi: It seems like actor Salman Khan will have to wait a little longer for his bail application to be heard in the Jodhpur bench of Rajasthan Hight Court.
This after Rajasthan High Court judge G K Vyas on Wednesday refused to hear Salman’s revision and bail pleas and ordered that it be transferred to another bench following allegations by lawyers that he may not be impartial.
His bail plea will now be heard on Thursday.
Interestingly, Vyas also did not hear the actor's petition as he was earlier the counsel for the Forest Department in all poaching cases against the star.
Meanwhile, Rajasthan's Additional Advocate General, B L Thakur says the Rajasthan government will oppose Salman's bail plea.
"Rajasthan government says that we will oppose Salman's bail plea. The state government has also filed a petition in Rajasthan HC seeking enhancement of punishment of Salman Khan in another case of killing Chinkara. In that case he was sentenced one year of imprisonment," says Thakur.
Salman has already spent four nights in the Jodhpur Central Jail. The celebrity prisoner, who was sentenced to five years in prison for hunting a chinkara, an endangered deer, nine years ago, surrendered himself to Rajasthan Police on Saturday following an arrest warrant.
In his plea, Salman has stated that there was no evidence against him in the case and his driver Harish Dulani's testimony in court was not trustworthy, as he has been changing his statements frequently.
Salman has been convicted of poaching a chinkara at the Ghoda farm near Jodhpur on September 28, 1998, while filming filmmaker Sooraj Barjatya's blockbuster film Hum Saath Saath Hain.
On Friday, the district and sessions court had dismissed the actor's plea against the five-year jail term handed by the chief judicial magistrate's court.
In April last year, Salman had filed an appeal in the district and sessions court against the judgment of the lower court. The court had found Salman guilty under the Wildlife Protection Act, 1972.
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