Salman files Rs100 Cr defamation suit

on Oct 8, 2016

Bollywood Actor Salman Khan has filed a defamation suit against a TV news channel in the Bombay high court and has slapped damages worth Rs100 crore. Salman Khan who was accused of poaching a chinkara inJodhpur and another at Ghodafarms during the shooting of his film, 'Hum Saath Saath Hain', in September 1998 has filed a defamation suit as he claimed a sting operation conducted by the channel in the 1998 chinkara poaching case was malicious and defamatory. He wants the channel to be restrained from releasing or making public in any way, any part of that sting operation. Justice SJ Kathawalla, who is presiding over the matter, will hear the matter on November 18. The channel claimed in the sting operation “witnesses claimed they saw Khan shoot the endangered chinkaras in Jodhpur”. However, later the “witness/es turned hostile and claimed the video was doctored”