Journalist Who Broke the News of Dutt's Arrest Trashes 'Sanju'

Alexis

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Posted: 7 years ago

Veteran crime journalist Baljeet Parmar claims to have dined with Dawood Ibrahim and to have been shot at by Chhota Rajan's men. Incidentally, he's also the man who first broke the news of Sanjay Dutt's link in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

In a 2007 article titled "How I broke the Dutt story, Parmar had written about how he first got a whiff of the fact that Dutt's name had cropped up in the Mumbai bombings investigations.

One month after the blasts on 13 April 1993 Parmar made "casual enquiries about the progress of the case from YC Pawar, who was heading the investigation team. Pawar told him, "Apke MP ke bete ka naam aa raha hai (Your MP's son's name is coming in the investigation).It had to be Sanjay Dutt and that's how Parmar got his big breaking story.

"I told him (Sanjay Dutt) that his friends Samir Hingora and Yusuf Nulwala had squealed on him. "Oh my God, said Dutt, and disconnected. Two hours later he called again, wanting to know about the punishment if he got caught.

I told him. If he surrendered with weapons, he would be charged under the Arms Act and could get bail. But if the police arrested him and recovered the weapons, he could be charged under TADA without bail.

Here are excerpts from Parmar's FB post (with original typos intact) :

During the last two days I have received hundreds of messages and requests to react on the film SANJU. First of all let me confess that I am not a film buff. The last time I went to watch a movie was in 1997.
It is a waste of time to discuss merits or dismerits of films like SANJU or it's protagonist Sanjay Dutt.
Hirani and his ilk are out there to make a quick buck. That is their business and they have every right to do it.
The use or misuse of drugs, sleeping with women, branding media as an addictive potion, finding faults with system or society, willingly and knowingly Indulge in criminal activity, showing no remorse for your past actions, playing the sympathy card and crying victim, if that is what SANJU is about, I do not regret my decision of staying away from cinema halls.

Edited by desiking3 - 7 years ago