Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Sanjay Dutt urges court to allow him to surrender before jail

 Sanjay Dutt urges court to allow him to surrender before jail

Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt,
convicted in 1993 bomb blasts case, today urged a designated
TADA court here to allow him to surrender before Yerwada jail
in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court.
    Judge G A Sanap, hearing the actor's application,
asked CBI to file a reply and posted the hearing on Dutt's
plea tomorrow. Public prosecutor Deepak Salvi appeared for
the Government and CBI.
    Dutt filed the application in the TADA court, hours
after the Supreme Court refused to grant Dutt additional time
to surrender for undergoing the remaining 42 months jail term
in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.
    The apex court was hearing a petition filed by a film
producer, who sought time for Dutt to complete his
under-production films.
    Dutt, convicted under the Arms Act and sentenced to
five year jail term, is supposed to surrender on May 16
before the authorities.
    On May 10, the apex court had dismissed Dutt's plea
seeking review of its judgement on his conviction and
five-year jail term.
    53-year-old Dutt was earlier granted four weeks more
time to surrender to undergo the remaining jail term.
    The Supreme Court, on March 21, had upheld his
conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, which it said was
engineered by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and others with
the involvement of Pakistan's ISI.
    However, the apex court had reduced to five years the
six-year jail term awarded to Dutt by a designated TADA court
in 2006 while ruling out his release on probation, saying the
"nature" of his offence was "serious".
    Dutt was convicted by the TADA court for illegally
possessing a 9 mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle, which were part
of a consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India
for coordinated serial blasts that killed 257 people and
injured over 700 in 1993.

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