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Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt released from jail after 42 months
Yogesh Joshi, Hindustan Times, Pune| Updated: Feb 25, 2016 08:45 IST
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was released from prison from Thursday morning after being incarcerated for three years.(HT PHOTO)
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Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt walked out a free man from Yerwada prison on Thursday morning after serving a sentence of five years for being in possession of an AK-56 rifle. The actor spent almost three years in the Pune jail under the Arms Act in the Mumbai serial blasts case.
The 56-year-old actor's jail term has been controversial with accusations that he availed of irregular remission in his sentence and was accorded special treatment by the authorities. Authorities have denied the reports and maintained that Dutt's remission days were calculated in accordance with rules and jail manual.
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The actor's early release has come as a relief for the Dutt family which has undergone the ordeal of seeing Sanjay Dutt walk in and out of police stations, custody, court premises and jails, since the last 23 years from his date of arrest in April 1993. Sources close to the family said that almost everyone including his sister Priya Dutt has been camping in Pune since Wednesday to bring the actor back home in a chartered flight to Mumbai.
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Dutt was arrested on April 19, 1993, for possession and destruction of an AK-56 rifle, which was a part of cache of arms and explosives which landed in India prior to the serial blasts of March 1993.
During the investigation and the marathon trial of the case, he spent 18 months in jail in 1993. On July 31, 2007, the TADA court in Mumbai sentenced him to six years' rigorous imprisonment under the Arms Act and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000. In 2013, the Supreme Court upheld the ruling but reduced the sentence to five years.
During his imprisonment, he was granted parole of 90 days in December 2013 and again for 30 days later.
Yogesh Joshi, Hindustan Times, Pune| Updated: Feb 25, 2016 08:45 IST
Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was released from prison from Thursday morning after being incarcerated for three years.(HT PHOTO)
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Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt walked out a free man from Yerwada prison on Thursday morning after serving a sentence of five years for being in possession of an AK-56 rifle. The actor spent almost three years in the Pune jail under the Arms Act in the Mumbai serial blasts case.
The 56-year-old actor's jail term has been controversial with accusations that he availed of irregular remission in his sentence and was accorded special treatment by the authorities. Authorities have denied the reports and maintained that Dutt's remission days were calculated in accordance with rules and jail manual.
Read: My lion comes home, daughter Trishala on Sanjay Dutt's release
The actor's early release has come as a relief for the Dutt family which has undergone the ordeal of seeing Sanjay Dutt walk in and out of police stations, custody, court premises and jails, since the last 23 years from his date of arrest in April 1993. Sources close to the family said that almost everyone including his sister Priya Dutt has been camping in Pune since Wednesday to bring the actor back home in a chartered flight to Mumbai.
Read: Chicken Sanju Baba' for free, how a restaurant will celebrate actor's freedom
Dutt was arrested on April 19, 1993, for possession and destruction of an AK-56 rifle, which was a part of cache of arms and explosives which landed in India prior to the serial blasts of March 1993.
During the investigation and the marathon trial of the case, he spent 18 months in jail in 1993. On July 31, 2007, the TADA court in Mumbai sentenced him to six years' rigorous imprisonment under the Arms Act and imposed a fine of Rs 25,000. In 2013, the Supreme Court upheld the ruling but reduced the sentence to five years.
During his imprisonment, he was granted parole of 90 days in December 2013 and again for 30 days later.
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