The Supreme Court has issued notice to actor Salman Khan in the 1998 killing of two Chinkara deer and a black buck during a film shooting in Rajasthan.
The top court's notice followed the Rajasthan government's petition challenging a High Court order suspending the actor's conviction in the case.
The 47-year-old 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.
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.
Mr Khan's rifle and revolver were seized by the court when he was first accused of poaching and their licences were found to have expired.
Fresh charges were framed against Mr Khan last year after the Rajasthan High Court and the Supreme Court both ruled that the Arms Act could not be applied to him and sent the case back to the lower court.
In November last year, the Rajasthan High Court ordered that Salman Khan's poaching conviction be suspended to make it easier for the actor to travel abroad for a film.
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