As the actor's five-year sentence for poaching chinkaras in 1998 was upheld on Friday, Salman is back in the 133-year old Jodhpur Central Jail a second time as Qaidi No.343. The 41-year-old actor's previous cellmate was Mahesh, a lifter. This time jail authorities are tight-lipped about his new cellmate. "Let us just say, he is safe and secure," said the jail official to a newspaper. There are around 200 dreaded Punjabi and Kashmiri terrorists housed in the same prison.
Khan interacted with mediapersons on the flight to Jodhpur. "Everyone else in the case was discharged. Why am I being punished?" he asked. But he did not lose his sense of humour. He was reading a newspaper that had a representative collage of celebrities behind bars. "So I am not the only one," he smiled to a cameraperson on the flight.
The actor's legal team filed a revision application in the Jodhpur high court on Saturday. But Salman should be mentally prepared to stay in prison for at least a few days; the earliest his application may get a hearing is Wednesday. The revision application challenges his conviction and sentence and simultaneously seeks bail.
Legal experts say that the one good thing the actor has done is to listen to his lawyers and go to Jodhpur on his own volition to show that his intentions are honourable; this will help when the judge is considering his bail application.
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