IN PICS: Salman Khan Leaves From Jail To Jodhpur Airport

JODHPUR: Bollywood actor Salman Khan was today released from the Jodhpur jail after being granted bail by a district and sessions court here in the 1998 blackbuck poaching case in which he was sentenced to five years in jail.

Earlier, district and Sessions Judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi allowed Khan's plea for bail and suspension of sentence for a month to allow him to appeal against his conviction and sentence.

Khan walked out of the jail after the prison authorities received the court papers granting him bail, the official said.

Immediately after his release, Khan, 52, was driven under police escort to the airport here, a police official said.

Khan's sisters - Alvira and Arpita - were present during the hearing.

Khan, who had spent two nights in the Jodhpur Central Jail after his sentencing on Thursday, was granted bail on a bond of Rs 50,000 and two sureties of like amount, Defence counsel Mahesh Bora said.