Indian actor, Salman Khan isn’t in the best of moods at the moment. The Bollywood star was convicted Thursday of poaching rare deer in a wildlife preserve two decades ago and sentenced to five years in prison.

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The celebrated actor contends he did not shoot the two blackbuck deer in the western India preserve in 1998 and was acquitted in related cases.

Khan was in court for the ruling in the western city of Jodhpur on Thursday. He is expected to be taken to a local prison while it could take days for his attorneys to appeal the conviction and seek bail.

Amazingly four other celebrities have also been accused in the case.

They are Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam – were acquitted by Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri. They were in the jeep that Salman Khan was believed to be driving during the hunt.

Khan has had other brushes with the law.

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