In a plea filed by actor Salman Khan on Wednesday, he has sought a stay in pronouncement of order in the Arms act case saying it would be better if decision in both poaching case and Arms act case is declared together.
His plea came after the court finished recording statements of all the witnesses as well as Salman Khan on Wednesday. The court is likely to pronounce judgement on his plea at 4 pm.
He had reached the CJM court in Jodhpur earlier on Wednesday to record his statement in an Arms Act case against him connected to the poaching of two chinkara deer and a blackbuck. Salman had been exempted from appearing in court till now.
The actor is accused of hunting and killing the endangered deer while shooting his film Hum Saath Saath Hain in Rajasthan in 1998. He has already twice spent time in the Jodhpur jail in connection to the case, in 1998 and again in 2007.
"Salman has been asked to appear personally before the court on January 29," Mr Khan's counsel Hastimal Saraswat told news agency IANS on January 16.
Fresh charges in the poaching case were framed against Mr Khan in March last year after first the Rajasthan High Court and then the Supreme Court ruled that Section 148 of the Arms Act, or rioting with deadly weapons, could not be applied to him.
Mr Khan's Hum Saath Saath Hain co-stars - Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Neelam - are charged with inciting the actor to hunt.
In November last year, the Rajasthan High Court ordered that Salman Khan's poaching conviction be suspended for visa purposes to make it easier for the actor, who had been denied an UK visa to shoot his film Kick, to travel abroad.
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