Sanjay Dutt will not be given more time to surrender: Supreme Court

Mangalore Today News Network/NDTV

New Delhi, May 14, 2013 : Filmstar Sanjay Dutt, who has been convicted in an arms case related to the 1993 Mumbai blasts, will have to surrender and return to jail by tomorrow, as ordered earlier by the Supreme Court.

The top court today rejected appeals filed by two film producers seeking more time for the actor to surrender. "We had already said that no application for extension of time will be entertained," the court said while refusing to accept the pleas.

Last week, the court had dismissed the actor’s petition that his conviction in the case be reconsidered.

The court had sentenced Mr Dutt to five years in jail in March this year for possessing firearms supplied by men who executed the Mumbai bombings in 1993 that killed more than 200 people.

On April 17, Mr Dutt moved court seeking six more months to surrender to allow him to finish pending films. But the court rejected his plea and gave him four weeks to wrap up his work.

Mr Dutt has already served 18 months of his sentence but was released on bail while his case was appealed. He now has to serve the remaining three-and-a-half-years of his term.

 

Dutt fears threat to life; wants to surrender before jail

 

Sanjay Dutt today told a TADA court that he was facing threat to life from fundamentalist groups and hence should be allowed to surrender before Yerwada jail instead of the special court here.

Dutt filed an application before special TADA Judge G A Sanap seeking permission to surrender before the Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court in south Mumbai.

 

Judge Sanap today asked the prosecuting agency CBI to file a reply and posted the hearing on Dutt’s plea tomorrow. Public prosecutor Deepak Salvi appeared for the Government and CBI.

Dutt filed the application in the TADA court, hours after the Supreme Court refused to grant the actor additional time to surrender for undergoing the remaining 42 months jail term in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.