SC refuses to give time to Sanjay Dutt surrender


New Delhi, May 14 (PTI): The Supreme Court today refused to grant more time to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt to surrender to undergo remaining three-and-a-half-year jail term in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

A bench of justices B S Chauhan and Dipak Misra refused to hear the plea of a film producer, who sought more time for Dutt to surrender in order to complete two films which are under production.

Dutt, who was convicted under the Arms Act and was sentenced to five year jail term, is supposed to surrender before jail authorities on May 16 to undergo his remaining jail term. He has already undergone one-and-a-half-year jail term.

Earlier 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 apex court had on March 21 upheld his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case which it said was organised 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 and ruled 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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  • Bollu, Mangalore

    Tue, May 14 2013

    Two days left..
    It's learned..convicts given only one glass of water a day...with chappati and diluted dal. They wants to sleep in a bare floor..and to do hard work..during there jail term..
    He escaped from rigrous punishment from Terrorist Act to Arms Act..
    No sympathy...His father use to go to border..to boost moral of our jawans..by organising different cultural activities..
    poora naam mitti mein mila diya..

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  • Naveen D'souza, Valencia-Kuwait

    Tue, May 14 2013

    LAW IS SAME FOR ALL INDIANS. THEN WHAT IS THE MAIN REASON HE GOT EXTRA ONE MONTH TO SURRENDER. JUST FOR HE WANT TO FINISH HIS REMAINING FILMS. IT WILL EFFECT FOR AAM ADMI ALSO? NO RIGHT.

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