Sanjay Dutt's bail extended till further notice

Sanjay Dutt's bail extended till further notice
Wednesday, February 21, 2007 12:50 IST
By Santa Banta News Network
Giving further relief to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted for possessing illegal weapon in connection with the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case, a Special TADA Court on Tuesday extended his bail term till further notice.

This assumes significance as some days back, relatives of the other convicts in the case protested against alleged "special treatment" offered to the film star and demanded "equal treatment" to all those convicted in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

Even the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) had asked the court to award maximum sentence to the 48-year-old actor along with the other guilty.

Dutt had filed an application under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958, which allows a person convicted of any offense other than the one punishable with death or life imprisonment to be released on probation, instead of serving time in prison.

Earlier, Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam had opposed Dutt's plea arguing that he could not be said to have been a "youthful" offender, when the crime was committed.

Nikam said the Probation of Offenders Act was meant for young and immature offenders. Dutt at 34, when in 1993 he accepted an AK-56 rifle and a Chinese 9mm pistol from Samir Hingora, was "mature and adult".

He had contended that Dutt could then distinguish between a hunting rifle and an AK-56, "a weapon of mass destruction".

He dismissed Dutt's defense that he had acquired the AK-56 as he feared for his family's safety during the Mumbai riots following Babri Masjid demolition, arguing that the actor rather knew people from the underworld, like Dawood Ibrahim.

Dutt was cleared of charges of conspiracy in the 1993 Mumbai blast case by a TADA Court. But he was booked for illegally possessing an AK-56 rifle that had come in a consignment of arms and explosives meant for use in the Mumbai serial blasts that killed 257 people.
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