The Supreme Court on Thursday March 21,2013 upheld Bollywood Actor Sanjay Dutt's conviction in the 1993 Mumbai Blasts Case and his sentence was reduced from six to five years in jail. The SC said that the evidence and materials perused by the TADA court in arriving at the decision against Dutt was correct.
Sanjay Dutt, who has served 18 months in jail, will now have to spend another 3 years and 6 months in jail.
Sanjay Dutt said that he has accepted the judgement with humility. Another three and a half years are left, will see whatever happens as and when.
Sanjay Dutt can still file a review petition against the verdict within the next four weeks. If he doesn't appeal against his sentence in the given time period, he will have to surrender before the Bombay High Court and will be sent to jail to serve his sentence
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1993 Mumbai Blasts
About 257 people were killed and 713 injured in the serial blasts that rocked 12 locations in Mumbai on March 12, 1993. Property worth Rs 30 crore was damaged in the terror strike.
The fishermen's colony at Mahim Causeway, Bombay Stock Exchange, Zaveri Bazar, Plaza Cinema in Dadar, Century Bazaar in Worli, Hotel Sea Rock, Sahar Airport, Air India building, Hotel Juhu Centaur and a petrol pump opposite the Sena Bhavan were some of the places that were targeted.
According to the CBI,Dawood Ibrahim, along with Pakistant's ISI, engineered the blasts, and Tiger Memon and his brother Ayub were the main conspirators
A special TADA Court had convicted 100 people in the serial blasts case in which 250 people died and more than 700 were injured. Sanjay Dutt was convicted in November 2006 for illegal possession of a 9mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle but was acquitted of more serious charges of criminal conspiracy under the now defunct anti-terror TADA.
Sanjay Dutt was convicted under the Arms Act while he escaped conviction under TADA. He was handed out an imprisonment of six years in July 2007 and was out on bail.
After a marathon 10-month-long hearing starting November 1, 2011, the Supreme Court had in August 2012 reserved its verdict on appeals and cross-appeals in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case in which 257 people were killed and 713 were injured.
Sanjay Dutt married Manyata in Mumbai on February 11, 2008 and have twins - a son named Shahraanand daughter named Iqra
Yakub Memon gets death, life for 10 others
One of the 1993 Mumbai blasts case masterminds Yakub Memon's death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court even as 10 others, who were used to plant the bombs, have got some relief as the the apex court commuted their death penalty to life term. Yakub was convicted in 1993 blast case and is the brother of Ibrahim Mushtaq 'Tiger' Memon, one of the prime accused of the attacks which killed 257 people.
Yakub Memon has been in jail since he returned to India and surrendered in 1994 and he has been convicted of proving the explosives and weapons to the other convicts to carry out the carnage.Maha Governor Sends Pardon Plea to Home Department
Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan sent Samajwadi Party MP Jaya Prada’s letter seeking pardon for actor Sanjay Dutt to the State Home Department on March 28, according to a statement by the Governor’s office on Sunday March 31,2013
On March 26,2013 Jaya Prada and Amar Singh met the Governor and submitted the letter asking him to use his discretionary powers of granting amnesty and pardon to Sanjay Dutt considering his background, contribution to the field of cinema and good conduct over the past 20 years
They also attached a letter in the actor’s support from the Sevagram
Ashram Pratishthan Trust, which was written to then President Pratibha
Patil, seeking her intervention for a pardon for the actor since he had
spread Mahatma Gandhi’s message through his films.
The Governor’s office, however, said it had also received over 20 representations opposing pardon for Mr. Dutt.
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