Sanjay Dutt’s bail extended till December 19th
28 November 2006 | Actors | No Comments
Actor Sanjay Dutt has been granted bail till December 19th, in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Sanjay pleaded, when given the opportunity to speak, that he was the only earning member of the family. He has a daughter to support financially and films worth Rs 160 crores are riding on him. The judge then went to announce his judgement, that the court had found Sanjay Dutt guilty primarily on three accounts: his own confession statement; the confession statement of his co-accused; and recovery of weapons from his residence as evidence. Judge Kode said, "Sanjay Dutt is not a terrorist but he kept the weapons for his own protection."
Dutt in his confession statement to the CBI had said he and his late father Sunil Dutt had sheltered hundreds of Muslim families and helped them re-establish their lives after the 1992 Mumbai riots, thus creating some tensions in the hard-core Hindu fundamentalists. Sanjay Dutt too received threatening calls and feared that his entire family would be wiped out in the riots. According to the police, fearing for his life Sanjay Dutt ordered an AK-56 rifle and hand grenades from underworld don Dawood Ibrahim's brother Anis Ibrahim, and Abu Salem delivered the weapons and grenades to the actor in January 1993.'I feared for my life and that of my family so I had to take this drastic step,' Dutt had said in his confessional statement.
Judge Kode further said Sanjay Dutt could apply for bail and he was then given bail for three weeks till December 19.
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