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Sanjay Dutt gets four more weeks to surrender
Wednesday April 17, 2013 12:18:22 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi:
The Supreme Court Wednesday gave Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt four
more weeks to surrender following his conviction under the Arms
Act in the 1993 Mumbai bombings case.
Holding that it was not inclined to grant six months' time as
sought by Dutt to complete his pending film projects, the apex
court bench of Justice P. Sathasivam and Justice B.S. Chauhan gave
him four weeks to surrender, saying no further extension will be
given.
The four weeks' time, the court said, will start from April 18. At
the outset of the hearing, the court told senior lawyer Harish
Salve: "You can't say that your client (Dutt) was unaware of his
conviction and pending appeal before the Supreme Court."
The court said that "not only yourself (Salve), all those who
invested Rs.278 crore in Dutt's film projects, were they not aware
that a judgment is reserved in the appeal by the Bollywood
actor?".
At the outset of the hearing, Salve told the court that he was not
raising any legal ground and was seeking an extension of time to
surrender purely on humanitarian grounds.
Appearing for the CBI, Additional Solicitor General Haren Raval
opposed Dutt's plea for six months to complete his pending film
projects beforesurrendering, saying that the same plea will be
used as a precedent by other convicts for seeking enhancement of
time to surrender.
He said that only a day earlier on Tuesday the court rejected the
review petitions by the five convicts in the 1993 Mumbai bomb
blast case.
The apex court had pronounced its order on March 21. While
upholding Dutt's conviction under the Arms Act for possessing
illegal arms, the court reduced his sentence from six to five
years. The Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act
court had sentenced him to undergo six years' imprisonment.
Sanjay Dutt has already completed one-and-half years in jail, thus
he has to serve the remainder three-and-half years' sentence.
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