Actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the Mumbai serial blasts case, has again made an application to the divisional commissioner for a 30-day parole.
The 55-year-old actor is in jail since January this year, when he returned from a furlough granted to him. Senior officials from the office of divisional commissioner confirmed they had received Sanjay Dutt's parole application and it was being processed.
Since May 2013, Sanjay Dutt has been serving the remaining 42 months of his five-year sentence for illegal possession of arms in a case related to the 1993 serial blasts, in which over 250 people were killed and several wounded.
He had served 18 months of his five-year jail term in the past in 2007-08. From May 2013 to May 2014, he had spent over 118 days out either on parole or furlough, which was questioned by social organisations which alleged that the government had moved swiftly for granting jail leaves to Sanjay Dutt as compared to others.
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