Why is Salman Khan going to jail?

He along with another villager, Choga Ram, chased Salman's gypsy on a motorbike when he saw it stray into the jungles on September 27, 1998 at midnight. Salman was accompanied by actors Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam but it was Salman who shot the two black bucks in 1998 during the shooting of his movie Hum Saath Saath Hain.

In December 2005, a Rajasthan court had cancelled Salman's bail after he missed a scheduled court appearance. The chief judicial magistrate of Jodhpur, BK Jain, had issued a non-bailable warrant against the actor for disobeying the court and thrice failing to appear in the court in the blackbuck poaching case.

Thereafter the case continued to carry on and Salman was booked under the Wildlife Protection Act and was sentenced to one year imprisonment in 2006. Giving its verdict, the Jodhpur Court also directed Khan to pay a fine of Rs 5000. Meanwhile, six other accused in the case, namely Saif Ali Khan, Satish Shah, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam Kothari have been acquitted by the court. Salman spent 4 days in prison and was lodged in barrack No 1 of Jodhpur Central jail. His fellow inmates in the high-security prison include some of the most dreaded terrorists from Jammu and Kashmir.

He has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment in another poaching case in Bhawad and filed an appeal against that decision as well. There are three more cases of Wild Life Protection and Arms Act against Salman, and the offshoots of these cases have now grown up to nine in all.