Sanjay Dutt gets interim bail from Supreme Court

Aug 20 - Sanjay Dutt gets interim bail from Supreme Court

Supreme Court granted bail on Monday to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, jailed for six years for receiving guns from gangsters involved in the country's worst bombings as per TV Reports

Convicted last November on charges of possessing illegal fire arms in the run-up to the Mumbai serial bombings of March 1993, Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to a six-year jail term on July the 31 this year. Actor Sanjay Dutt's bail application was heard by the Supreme Court Today.

A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan said it was releasing Dutt and others while restoring "status quo ante sentencing".

However, those who had been in prison before being sentenced by the anti-terror TADA court would continue to be inside jail.

Presently serving his term in Pune's Yerwada jail, the popular actor had been taken into custody soon after the July pronouncement of the sentence.

He then moved the apex court seeking bail and challenging his conviction under the Arms Act.

Karan Singh, a member of Dutt's legal team, had told IANS that he hoped the apex court would readily grant interim bail to the actor following the trial court's failure to supply him its detailed judgement at the time of jailing him. - IANS