India’s Michael Vick? Bollywood Star Jailed for Poaching Rare Gazelle

India’s Michael Vick? Bollywood Star Jailed for Poaching Rare Gazelle

NEW DELHI -- American football star Michael Vick is not the only mega-celebrity whose ill treatment of animals has recently earned him hard time.

Over the weekend, Salman Khan, a leading man in India's Bollywood film industry, began serving a
stiff five-year jail sentence for a poaching incident that took place nearly a decade ago.

Khan, convicted of killing a rare Chinkara Gazelle on a desert wildlife preserve in 1998, was done no favors by an Indian legal system known to enforce strict laws in defense of endangered species.

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