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CONTROVERSY: BLACKBUCK CASE
INTERVIEW: SALMAN KHAN
"The Experience Is A Punishment"
Salman Khan spoke to Senior Correspondent
Rohit Parihar in Jodhpur. Excerpts:
Q. How do you feel about the case?
A.
This is life. They are doing their duty.
Q. Do people feel differently about you?
A. All important persons have good and bad qualities. After the
blackbuck case, everyone feels Salman is a bad guy.
Q. Are you suffering?
A.
The entire experience is a punishment for me, far more rigorous than the
days I spent in jail.
Q. What was the experience in custody?
A. I
was rudely woken up around 6-6:30 a.m. The toilets were stinking and the
bed ... I feel humiliated. I have never treated even my servants like
this.
Q. But this is what every accused gets.
A. No,
this is what hurts me. I am not being treated as a common man.
Q. How can you say that?
A.
Where else are officers specially flown out to investigate the death of
a black- buck and the case file contains 329 pages, all laminated. And
how many common men were put in jail even before conviction for allegedly
killing a chinkara?
Q. You mean the prosecution is not fair?
A.
There is something wrong. How many times do you have two post mortems
even for a murdering a human? And, in Mumbai, where so many murders take
place in broad daylight, you don't get even one witness. Here, for something
supposedly done in the jungle, there are 51.
Q. Have environmentalists and the Bishnois
turned against you?
A. I
don't know what precedent they want to set by making me a target. Did
you notice someone hurling a stone at me? This despite the fact I was
so cordial.
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