Two prosecution witnesses in a case of poaching of protected wild animals against actor Salman Khan turned hostile in a lower court in Jodhpur on Wednesday.
Mahendra Singh, an employee of hotel Ashirwad in Jodhpur, backtracked in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Salim Malik from his statement given to the police earlier that he had found meat of a black buck, purportedly killed by Khan, in the hotel kitchen on September 27, 1998.
He also denied that the hotel owner, Mohammad Hussain, and three others -- Dushyant Banna, Yashpal Banna and Zhanwar Singh -- cooked the meat and took the same to hotel Ummed Bhawan, where the Bollywood star was staying.
Another witness, Gani Khan, was also declared hostile when he denied telling the police that he had contacted Dushyant Singh to hire a Gypsy car for the actor.
Khan is facing trial on charges of killing protected wild animals in 1998 when he was in Jodhpur for the shooting of Sooraj Barjatya's film Hum Saath Saath Hain.
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