Sanjay Dutt
15May, New Delhi: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt withdrew his application seeking to surrender before the Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court in south Mumbai.
On Tuesday, Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 bomb blasts case, had told a TADA court that he was facing threat to life from fundamentalist groups and hence should be allowed to surrender before the Yerwada jail.
Sanjay Dutt, whose conviction under the Arms Act was upheld by the Supreme Court recently, is supposed to surrender on May 16. However, the apex court had reduced to five years the six-year jail term awarded to Dutt by a designated TADA court in 2006 while ruling out his release on probation, saying the ‘nature’ of his offence was ‘serious.’
Sanjay Dutt had filed the application in the TADA court, hours after the Supreme Court refused to grant him additional time to surrender for undergoing the remaining jail term in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.
With PTI inputs
