New Delhi: Bollywood star Salman Khan with other co-accused arrived on Wednesday in Jodhpur where a court is expected to pronounce its verdict in a 1998 poaching case in which Khan is the prime accused. Final arguments of the case were completed in the trial court on March 28, after which Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri had reserved the judgment for Thursday.

Salman is accused of killing two blackbucks, hunting of which is prohibited under the Wildlife Protection Act, at Kankani village in Jodhpur during the shooting of film Hum SaathSaathHain. Actors Saif Ali Khan, SonaliBendre, Tabu and Neelam and a local resident, Dushyant Singh, are among the accused in the case.

Salman Khan, 52, arrived from Mumbai in a chartered flight. He was earlier in Abu Dhabi for the shooting for “Race 3”. Bendre, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu and Neelam also reached Jodhpur from Mumbai.

Later, a video went viral in which Saif, after arriving here, can be heard using rough language and asking his driver to roll up the car’s window-panes and reverse as a crowd gathers around his vehicle.

Salman is facing charges under Section 51 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act and the other actors have been charged under Section 51 read with Section 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Indian Penal Code. Maximum punishment under Section 51 is six years.

“All of them were in a Gypsy car that night, with Salman Khan in the driving seat. He, on spotting a herd of black bucks, shot at and killed two of them,” Public Prosecutor Bhawani Singh Bhati had said.

“But on being spotted and chased, they fled from the spot leaving the dead animals there,” he said, adding that there was adequate evidence against them.