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“Recently, after the death of Sushant Singh Rajput, Salman Khan was convicted and sentenced to five years in jail”
Social media posts Claim dated 9 Sep 2022.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE

What FACTLY found

On 05 April 2018, a Jodhpur rural court sentenced actor Salman Khan to five years in jail for having poached two blackbucks in Kankani village in 1998. But he was soon granted bail and was released from jail on 07 April 2018. All these events took place before actor Sushant Singh Rajput’s death in June 2020. The video shared in the post was published by Salman Khan himself on his Instagram page, on 20 July 2019. Salman Khan was not convicted again recently in any of the cases

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In short

This claim spread on social media around 9 September 2022. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 9 September 2022. Its rating was “FALSE”.

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