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Before he became India's Vice President and a constitutional stalwart, Jagdeep Dhankhar played a pivotal role in one of Bollywood's most talked-about legal dramas, the 1998 blackbuck poaching case involving superstar Salman Khan. While many now associate Dhankhar with political gravitas, few recall his courtroom battle that momentarily stole the spotlight in a case that gripped the nation.
The blackbuck incident took place in Kankani village near Jodhpur during the shooting of a film featuring Salman Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Tabu, Neelam, and Sonali Bendre. They were accused of hunting two blackbucks, a protected species under India...