Sanjay Dutt in jail, Criminal no. 15170

Mumbai, May 16 – Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has left his residence at Imperial Heights building in suburban Bandra and is heading to the designated Tada court in Mumbai to surrender and undergo his prison term in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

 

The actor is accompanied by his wife Manyata and director Mahesh Bhatt and is travelling in his car.

 

The Supreme Court in its March 21 verdict awarded five year imprisonment to the 53-year-old actor for illegal possession of arms.

 

On May 14, the apex court refused to grant him more time to surrender for undergoing remainder of the three-and-a- half-year jail term.

 

On Wednesday Dutt's lawyer Subhash Jadhav informed the special Tada court that the 53-year-old actor wanted to withdraw his application filed a day before seeking leave to surrender before Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up in the Tada court here. He did not assign any reason for withdrawing the application.

 

The actor will have to serve the remaining three-and-half years of a five-year sentence under the Arms Act for illegal possession of an AK-56 rifle at his Bandra bungalow about a month before the March 12, 1993 bomb blasts in the city in which 257 people were killed. He has already spent about a year-and-a-half in jail as an undertrial.

 

The actor will have to serve the remaining three-and-half years of a five-year sentence under the Arms Act for illegal possession of an AK-56 rifle at his Bandra bungalow about a month before the March 12, 1993 bomb blasts in the city in which 257 people were killed. He has already spent about a year-and-a-half in jail as an undertrial. Source: TNN