Two vital prosecution witnesses in the case of poaching of protected wild animals against Bollywood actor Salman Khan today turned hostile in a lower court here.One of the witnesses, Mahendra Singh, backtracked in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Salim Malik from his statement given to the police earlier that he had found the meat of the blackbuck, purportedly killed by Khan, in the Hotel Ashirwad kitchen on September 27, 1998. He also denied that the hotel owner, Mohammad Hussain, and three others, Dushyant Banna, Yashpal Banna and Zhanwar Singh, cooked the meat and took the same to Khan.Another witness, Gani Khan, was also declared hostile when he denied telling the police that he had contacted Dushyant Singh to hire a gypsy for the actor who allegedly used it for hunting.
