PUNE: Actor Sanjay Dutt, currently lodged at Yerwada jail in connection with an arms case related to the 1993 Mumbai blasts, will be released on February 27, according to sources here today.
Owing to ‘good behaviour’, Sanjay may be able to avail a 114-day remission.
Sanjay whose jail term ends in October, will be able to get a release in February.
Last year, a petition filed by former supreme court judge Markandey Katju in 2013, seeking pardon for Sanjay Dutt was rejected.
Sources had said Governor C Vidyasagar Rao rejected the petition on the recommendation of the Maharashtra Home department, which said it would set a bad precedent as the actor’s conviction was confirmed by the Supreme Court.
Sanjay’s frequent breaks from jail have earlier been criticised as evidence of VIP treatment. Between May 2013 and 2014, the actor spent over 118 days out of prison.
In 2007, he was cleared of conspiracy charges in connection with the serial blasts in Mumbai that killed 257 people and injured hundreds. But he was found guilty of illegal possession of an AK-56 rifle and a pistol and was sentenced to six years in jail.
He served 18 months but then was out on bail, fighting the conviction until a court in March 2013 ordered him back to jail in Pune. (UNI)
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