New Delhi [India], Mar 28 : A Jodhpur court will announce the verdict in the Salman Khan blackbuck case on April 5.

The Jodhpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Wednesday under Jodhpur District Presiding Officer Devkumar Khatri issued the date for the decision in the 20-year-old black deer hunting case.

Salman, along with Saif Ali Khan, Neelam, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Dushyant Singh are all accused in the case.

The Jodhpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Court on Wednesday under Jodhpur District Presiding Officer Devkumar Khatri issued the date for the decision in the 20-year-old black deer hunting case on salman khan and others. Salman, along with Saif Ali Khan, Neelam, Tabu, Sonali Bendre and Dushyant Singh are all accused in the case. Lawyers of all other parties, apart from Salman Khan's lawyer Hastimal Saraswat, were present in the court hearing on 28 March.

During the shooting of Sooraj Barjatya's movie, 'Hum Saath Saath Hain' in 1999, Salman allegedly went on a shooting expedition along with Saif, Neelam, Bendre and Tabu, killing two blackbucks in Kankani village in Rajasthan. The local Bishnoi community, who consider the black buck to be the reincarnation of their religious Guru Bhagwan Jambeshwar, filed a case against Salman Khan and other actors, along with one local person named Dushyant Singh.

Following protests by the local Bishnoi community, a case was later filed against Salman and the other actors.