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The order on Salman Khan's bail application to be pronounced post lunch, according to news agency ANI. 

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The arguments for Salman Khan's bail plea application have concluded and the Jodhpur Sessions Court has said that it will pronounce its order on the bail application post lunch.

While the prosecution has demanded that Salman's bail plea application be rejected on the ground of eyewitness accounts, the defence questioned the veracity of the same accounts, claiming that they were filled with discrepancies.

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The prosecution opposed the actor's bail plea and asked the court to keep him behind the bar. 

Joshi and trial court judge Dev Kumar Khatri, who had convicted Salman Khan and sentenced him to five years in jail in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case, are among more than 100 judicial officers transferred in Rajasthan. 

Reports said that Salman Khan's case listed at No.15 in the Court. 

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The judge had, on Friday, put off the hearing by a day as he wanted to see the entire case record before deciding whether Salman Khan should be granted bail. 

Judge Joshi has been transferred from Jodhpur to Siroh in Rajasthan. He will be replaced by Chandra Kumar Songara, district and sessions judge of Bhilwara. 

Meanwhile, Mahesh Bora, Salman Khan's lawyer told reporters that he was receiving threatening SMSes and internet calls warning him not to appear for the Bollywood star's bail hearing.

Salman Khan was handed out a 5-year prison sentence by the court, however, the other stars in the case - Saif Khan, Neelam, Tabu and Sonali Bendre - were acquitted.

Salman was sentenced under Section 51 of the Wildlife (Protection) Act and others under Section 51 read with Section 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Indian Penal Code. The Bollywood superstar was also slapped with a penalty of Rs 10,000.

Meanwhile, the nurse, who helped deliver Salman Khan visited a temple in Indore and prayed for his release in the case.

Rukmani Bai, who is also known as Salman's third mother, was working at Indore nursing home when the actor was born there on December 27, 1965.

Soon after the news of Salman's conviction came in, Bai visited a Hanuman temple in Indore and wished for his early release.