New Delhi, Delhi, India

Bollywood actor Salman Khan, who was granted bail in the blackbuck poaching case, filed a petition before Jodhpur District and Sessions Court seeking permission to visit four countries which has now been granted.

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Jodhpur District and Sessions Court granted permission to Salman Khan on Tuesday to travel outside India. The actor will be travelling to Canada, Nepal and the USA from May 25 to July 10.

Salman’s petition comes in the wake of his bail in the 1998 black buck poaching case which had come with some conditions, one of them being that he could not leave the country and is supposed to appear in court again on May 7. The other condition was two bonds of Rs 25,000 each.

Salman was sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of killing two blackbucks in Jodhpur during the shooting of his movie 'Hum Saath Saath Hain' in 1998. The actor spent two nights in Jodhpur Jail.

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The judge asked the actor to appear before the court after a month on May 7 when it will hear his plea for suspension of sentence. While granting the bail, the court ordered Salman to seek permission from the court to travel abroad. Meanwhile, the Bishnoi community, which reveres the blackbuck, has decided to move the Rajasthan High Court challenging the bail granted to Khan, according to Ram Niwas, the secretary of the Bishnoi Tiger Force.