Slog - Comments on Bollywood Poacher http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/bollywood_trouble The reason why the Bollywood star Salman Khan is going to jail for five years? Not for this: [A] 2002 hit-and-run case. One person was killed and three others injured when Khan allegedly drove into a group of homeless people sleeping on a pavement. But for this: Bollywood star Salman Khan has been placed under police arrest in India after a Rajasthan court upheld a prison sentence passed upon him for poaching. Khan had asked the court to overturn a five-year jail term, issued in 2006 for hunting a protected gazelle in 1998. Wherever you go, the rules of the... Copyright 2008 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:10:20 -0800 Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:33:15 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by arandomdude He's also ridiculously popular cause of one of his (relatively) recent movies in which he played a mob guy supposedly being inspired by Gandhi and applying his principles to todays problems. Non-violence kind of things. Good movie.
Authorities later found and illegal assault weapon in his posession. And was tried among a bunch of terrorists.

]]> arandomdude http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/bollywood_trouble#c790913 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/08/bollywood_trouble#c790913 Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:47:51 -0800 Comment by tsm For some reason, this made me think of this Onion article.

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Just sayin...

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You are absolutely right - "Wherever you go, the rules of the power game are the same"

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