Gujarat state forest department has ordered state CID to reopen the Chinkara shooting case against Amir Khan.
What is this Chinkara?
Wikipedia gives the following description
The Chinkara is a species of gazelle found in South Asia. Found in grasslands and desert areas in India, parts of Iran and Pakistan.
It is also known as the Indian Gazelle Gazella gazella bennetti
Certain researchers consider the decline in the Chinkara population as the reason behind the Cheetah getting extinct in India. It is classified as extremely vulnerable and endowed in the highly endangered species list. Its population is on the decline due to it being hunted for game.
What is this Chinkara shooting case?
By now we all know about the famous Shooting case against Salman. This one is almost on the same line. Only difference is that Amir shoot Chinkara with his camera and not the gun. While shooting for his Oscar nominated movie Lagaan, Amir had asked for the permission from the Forest dept to shoot Chinkara. The forest dept did not give the permission under certain forest conservation laws. But Amir went ahead with the shooting and the Chinkara was shown in the movie also. That’s it about the case.
What now?
Its been 8 years since the shooting was done. The case was first booked at the time of release of the movie. It was reopened last week. Its really unlikely that Forest Dept will have any problem in arranging for some eyewitnesses (after all the controversies related to Amir and NBA case)
Is it a big coincident that the case is reopened after eight years, in the time when Amir was going against the state government of Gujarat?
Gujarat state CID will probe in this case now. This is such a big wastage of resource, considering that Gujarat is one state, which has seen so much of violence in last few years. Instead of finding justice in those cases, CID is given these less important works. It’s really a kill of democracy and its tools.
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