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SC dismisses Sanjay Dutt's plea for review of conviction
Friday May 10, 2013 11:24:46 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: The Supreme
Court Friday rejected the review petition by Bollywood actor
Sanjay Dutt whose conviction under the Arms Act in 1993 Mumbai
serial bomb blast case was upheld by the apex court.
The top court, while upholding Dutt's conviction under the Arms
Act, has reduced his sentence from six years to five years.
A bench of Justice P.Sathasivam and Justice B.S.Chauhan dismissed
Dutt's plea seeking recall of its March 21 order by which it had
upheld the conviction under the Arms Act. The judges considered
review plea in their chambers.
The brief order said, "Application for hearing (the review
petition) in the open court is rejected."
The order said: "The review petitions are rejected." Besides the
review petition of Sanjay Dutt, the judges had also taken up the
review petitions by other convicts.
With the rejection of Dutt's plea, he is expected to surrender May
16 to serve his remaining three and a half year term.
The apex court by its order of March 21 had given the cine star
four weeks time to surrender to serve the remaining period of
sentence. These four weeks, which were to end April 18 were
further extended by another four weeks by the apex court order
April 17. Dutt was given an extended period of four week on the
plea that he had to meet his commitments for different films under
production.
He had sought six months' time to complete his pending film
projects which was not accepted by the court.
The court by its April 17 order had said given him another four
weeks time to surrender "considering the peculiar facts and
circumstances and also various reasons" that he had stated in
application for extension of time to surrender.
The court had made it clear that Dutt would not be granted any
further extension of time to surrender.
The Special TADA court that had tried 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts
cases had acquitted Dutt of charges under TADA but convicted him
under the Arms Act for unauthorisedly possessing arms AK-56 and
ammunitions. The TADA court had convicted him Nov 28, 2006 and
sentenced him June 31, 2007.
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