The Supreme Court on Tuesday dashed down all legal options for actor Sanjay Dutt against his conviction and sentence of five years’ jail term in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts while dismissing his curative petition.
A four-judge bench headed by Chief Justice P Sathasivam did not find merit in the curative petition filed by the 53-year-old Dutt.
Dutt has been lodged in the Yerawada jail in Pune after being shifted from the Arthur Road jail in Mumbai. He has spent 69 days behind bars after he surrendered on May 16 to undergo the remaining sentence of three-and-a-half years.
The court had on May 10 dismissed his plea for seeking review of its judgment on his conviction and five-year jail term.
A curative petition, which is usually decided in the judges chamber by two or three three senior-most judges, is the last procedural resort for a party to seek redressal against the Supreme Court verdict.
A bench of justice P Sathasivam and justice BS Chauhan had on March 21 upheld Dutt’’s conviction but had reduced the six-year jail term awarded to him by a designated TADA court in 2006 to to five years.
Dutt was convicted by the TADA court for illegal possession of a 9mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle which were part of a consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for coordinated serial blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people and injured over 700 in 1993.
On Saturday, four doctors from Pune’s Sassoon Hospital were rushed to Yerwada jail after the actor complained of blood pressure. However, the jail authorities had rubbished it saying it was a routine check-up.
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