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Jodhpur, Aug 7: A court in Jodhpur on Tuesday said it would rule on actor Salman Khan's appeal against a five-year prison term given to him in a poaching case on August 24, 2007.

Following the completion of arguments on the appeal filed by Salman, District and Sessions Judge Kamal Raj Singhvi said the court would pronounce its verdict on August 24, 2007

Public Prosecutor Pokar Ram Vishnoi strongly protested Salman's counsel's arguments regarding improper use of various sections of the Wildlife Protection Act against the actor.

Chief Judicial Magistrate Brijendra Kumar Jain had on April 10, 2006 convicted Salman for poaching an endangered blackbuck and given him a five-year prison term. The court also fined him Rs 25,000. Read story

Salman has filed the appeal against the verdict.

After failing to appear in Judge Singhvi's court on several occasions, the star went there on Monday.

Replying the objections raised by the advocates of Salman, Vishnoi contended that there were several other sections of the IPC against the accused when the FIR was filed and that was the right manner.

The prosecution told the court that proceeding was completed in the right manner and there was no question of improper proceeding under the Act.

He contended that the entire case was argued before the lower court and need no interference any more.

A tense-looking Salman was present in the court for the second consecutive day to hear the two-hour-long arguments by the prosecution.