The Rajasthan High Court has summoned Salman Khan and seven others booked in a poaching case to appear before it Nov 2, even as it issued bailable warrants against them.

"The court has also directed bailable warrants of Rs.5,000 each for all the eight accused and they would have to appear personally before the court," said Mahipal Bishnoi, counsel for the Bishnoi community that has launched a legal battle against the star.

The court verdict came after it admitted an appeal of the Rajasthan government for enhancing the jail term awarded to Salman by a local court in the Bhavad village poaching case in which he was charged with killing two chinkaras (Indian gazelles). The Bishnois revere the chinkara.

The government had challenged Salman's acquittal under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Arms Act even as a lower court sentenced him in February to a year in prison for the killings in Jodhpur district in September 1998.

"In the appeal, the state government had also challenged the acquittal of comedian Satish Shah and six local residents," Bishnoi told.

The court while observing that the facts deemed it a fit case for appeal converted the leave to appeal into a criminal one and asked all accused to appear personally.

Salman has been charged with hunting chinkaras during the night of Sep 26-27, 1998 when he was in Jodhpur for the shooting of Sooraj Barjatya's film "Hum Saath Saath Hain".

Salman and several other actors starring in the film were booked by Rajasthan's Forest Department on charges of poaching of endangered animals.

The court had found him guilty under Wildlife Protection Act. It, however, had exonerated him and others of various charges under the IPC and Arms Act.