Khan and seven other people, including Bollywood actors, had been accused of killing a gazelle and two antelopes over two days in 1998 while filming a movie in Rajasthan state.
The Bollywood star Salman Khan has been acquitted of shooting and killing three endangered animals nearly two decades ago, a verdict that overturned a lower court’s ruling that would have sent the actor to jail.
Two poaching cases were filed against Khan and he was convicted by a lower court and given jail terms of one and five years respectively.
Khan’s comments were considered particularly damaging given his immense popularity as a romance and action star in Indian films.