Finally the gun license of Bollywood actress Soha Ali Khan is cancelled today while concluding the Soha Ali Khan’s gun license case by the Gurgaon trail court.
However the court maintained that Soha had indeed acquired the license after the age of 18, and hence is free to appeal against the judgment.
It was reported that the gun is used by her father Masoor Ali Khan Pataudi for hunting down a blackbuck for which the case was filed against the actress. It was also claimed that Soha was a minor when she got the gun license.
The issue came in to limelight after Naresh Kadyan, animal rights activist, issued an application under the Right to Information Act in the Deputy Commissioner’s Office in Gurgaon asking whether the administration had ascertained if the applicant (Soha) was an adult when she moved the application for a gun license.
For the last one month she was questioned over the legality of the license and was asked to clarify how gun came in possession of her father and why was it used for hunting a protected species?
The actress was also accused of concealing important facts regarding the gun when she had applied for the renewal. Later she had also requested for a personal hearing also.
Earlier, Soha had pleaded innocence and invoked RTI to inspect copies of the documents attached to her application for securing the license in 1996.
The poaching case was registered June 5, 2005 by Jhajjar police and the gun, .22 bore rifle number 91501, was seized by them.