The driver of a jeep which Salman Khan is alleged to have used for hunting blackbucks, submitted before a local court that the film star killed the animal first injuring it with a bullet and then chopping off its head with a knife in Mathania near Jodhpur on September 28, 1998. Deposing before the court of city Judicial Magistrate S K Mathur on Saturday, the driver Harish Dulani who was employed by a film unit during shooting, said Khan fired the shots from the jeep and with the help of another person chopped off the neck of an injured black buck.

Khan, main accused in the killing of black bucks and chinkaras in Jodhpur in September-October 1998, was arrested and released after five days.
Prominent film personalities including Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bindre, Tabu and Neelam are among the eight accused in the case.
Recalling the sequence of events, Dulani told the court that around 10 P.M. he drove Khan, a spot boy Dinesh Gawre and a travel agent Dushyant Singh from Umed Bhawan Palace, where they were staying during the shooting of Hum Saath Saat Hain, to the bungalow of a former Maharaja's step-brother Tutu Banna, in the gypsy bearing registration number RJ-19-IC-2001.
The travel operator got off at the bungalow and three persons including one Om Singh and one Pratap boarded the jeep. They then set off for a horse farm near Mathani with a binocular attached gun, a search light and a pair of binoculars. Bureau Report