Here's why Salman Khan is controversy's favourite child

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is always in the news but many times its for all the wrong reasons Over the years he has developed a reputation of being controversys favourite child in the industry He reiterated that image on Tuesday after stoking another rowwith his statement that he felt like a raped woman during Sultanrsquos shootingThis statement raised a public and media storm with commoners and authorities both upset The National Commission for Women NCW demanded an apology within seven days from the Bollywood superstarSalman Khan finds himself in the midst of a controversy yet again The 50yearold star who made the comments during an interview with an entertainment website to promote his latest film Sultan said When I used to walk out of the ring after the shoot I used to feel like a raped woman I couldnrsquot walk straightBut this is not the first time Salman has been in the eye of a storm Here are some other instances when Bollywoods bad boy has sparked outrage with his behaviour or commentsSalman Khan in 2002 hitandrun caseAn allegedly drunk Salman Khan reportedly rammed his car into the American Express Cleaners at Bandra running over four people and killing one in the process His bodyguard Ravindra Patil had said at the time I cant drive it was Salman Salmans lawyers claim he was neither driving nor drunk The homicide charges against Salman were dropped after Ravindra died in 2007 On December 2013 the court ordered a fresh trial on the ground that witnesses had not been examined in the context of aggravated charge of culpable homicide which was invoked against Salman midway through the case On December 10 2015 Salman was acquitted of all charges in connection with the caseBlackbuck poaching caseActors Salman Khan Saif Ali Khan Sonali Bendre Tabu and Neelam are accused of poaching two blackbucks in the intervening night of October 1 and 2 1998 in Kankani village near Jodhpur during the shooting of the film Hum Saath Saath HainIn pictures Bollywood stars and their runins with the lawSalman Khan PicAFPPushed Aishwarya on setsA drunk Salman Khan stormed the sets of Kuch Naa Kaho in January 2002 and had a massive fight with Aishwarya Rai The unit got involved when Salman allegedly pushed Aishwarya He banged her parked car on the way out and was interrogated the week afterAbused Vivek OberoiIn 2003 Bollywood star Vivek Oberoi held a press conference and announced that angry that Vivek was romantically involved with Aishwarya Rai Salman Khan had abused him and threatened to kill himThrew Katrina Kaifs ShampooEarlier in 2009 reports broke out over how Salman Khan threw Katrina Kaifs shampoo bottle and belongings out of his home during an argument with herFight with SRKSalman and Shah Rukh Khan were involved in a fight at Salmans then girlfriend Katrina Kaifs birthday party in 2008 The two stars didnt speak to each other and were engaged in a cold war for many years However they have made peace nowFatwa for GaneshotsavIn 2008 some religious organisations issued a fatwa against Salman for celebrating Ganeshotsav at his residenceCourting politiciansSalman Khan drew criticism for meeting then Gujarat CM Narendra Modi during the kite festival in the run up to the Lok Sabha polls Some organistaions even asked people to boycott his film Jai Ho He was slammed for performing at Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadavs Saifai Mahotsav at the village of Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav while neglecting the riot victims at Muzaffarpur His donation of Rs 25 lakh to the JN Medical College though calmed some groups2611 attacks commentsSalman Khan faced flak for making statements in an interview to a Pakistani channel that the 2611 Mumbai terror attacks were hyped because elite people were targetedCampaigning for RajapakseTamil groups and many Sri Lankans criticised Salman Khan for campaigning for Mahinda Rajapakse for the SL presidential elections The Bollywood star thus became the first Indian actor to be roped in for a poll campaign in Sri LankaSlapping fans and bodyguardsSalman Khan is infamous for his temper and has lost his cool time and again He has slapped his fans for intruding into his privacy and slapped his bodyguard for misbehaving with his fansHe once slapped one of his bodyguards who mistakenly hit a fan while protecting the star While shooting for lsquoJai Horsquo a photographer had irked him by clicking his photos Salman had immediately asked his brother to take the camera and delete all the photos taken on the films setsIn 2013 Salman who was travelling in a car at the time had rolled down his window taken a fanrsquos phone and thrown it away for taking his pictures The same year he had abused reporter for asking him questions about Ranbir Kapoor and his exgirlfriend Katrina Kaifs vacation pictures that leaked onlineThreatening fishermanBollywood star Salman Khan landed in the thick of another controversy when a Mumbai fishermans family alleged that he had threatened them The fisherman had alleged that Khan and his bodyguards asked them to shift their boats and fishing nets since these blocked the sea view from the Bollywood stars Bandra West suburban residenceFIR for assaulting activistA member of one Akhil Bhartiya Bhrashtachar Nirmulan Samiti alleged in April 2015 that Salman Khan and his bodyguards abused and assaulted him on a flight in November last year and the latter also snatched his papers A Mumbai court asked the Airport police to file an FIR against Salman for assaulting the activist