An Indian court has granted bail to Bollywood superstar, Salman Khan, so he can appeal his conviction on charges of killing endangered wildlife two decades ago.

Khan was convicted Thursday and sentenced to five years in prison but was given bail by a court in the city in Rajasthan state.

Judge Ravindra Kumar Joshi ordered him to sign a surety bond of 50,000 rupees ($770) before he could be set free from the jail in Jodhpur, a town in western India.

His sisters, Alvira and Arpita, were present during the hearing while hundreds of Khan’s fans danced outside the courtroom and chanted “We love you, Salman,” Washington Post reports.

His fans also sang songs from his Bollywood movies, carried posters with his pictures and chased his car heading to the airport

At his Mumbai residence, fans waited for hours and lit up the sky with fireworks as Khan reached his home.

Four other Bollywood stars accused in the case – Saif Ali Khan, Sonali Bendre, Tabu and Neelam – were acquitted Thursday by Chief Judicial Magistrate Dev Kumar Khatri. They were in the vehicle that Salman Khan was believed to be driving during the hunt in 1998. Tabu and Neelam both use just one name.

His attorney Mahesh Bora has challenged the conviction and sentence, and Khan will remain free pending the outcome of the appeal.

The 52-year-old Khan has starred in more than 90 Hindi-language films.

Khan spent a total of 18 days in prison in 1998, 2006 and 2007 in the poaching cases, but was freed on bail. He had been sentenced to prison terms of between one and five years in related cases before being acquitted by appeals courts for lack of evidence.

Khan has faced other charges in the past. In 2014, the Mumbai High Court acquitted him in a drunken-driving, hit-and-run case, after he was accused of running over five men sleeping on a sidewalk in 2002, killing one of them.

The judges found that prosecutors had failed to prove charges of culpable homicide.