Indian Supreme Court Friday rejected Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s review plea, thus making it compulsory for him to go to jail on May 15.

New Delhi, May 10/Nationalturk – In a major setback to Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, Supreme Court Friday rejected his review plea, thus making it compulsory for him to go to jail on May 15.

A division bench of Supreme Court comprising Justice P Sathasivam and Justice B S Chauhan found no merit in the review plea filed by Sanjay Dutt. The bench upheld its March 21 judgement convicting the actor under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

“There is no case made out for it to review its decision of March this year, when it had upheld Dutt’s conviction for possessing arms illegally and sentenced him to a five-year jail term,” the court observed.

According to legal experts, the 53-year- Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt has an option of filing a curative petition, but that can be filed only when the oversight of evidence is proven. “He can apply for mercy only after he goes to jail,” they said adding he will have to go to jail on May 15 as has been directed by the Supreme Court.

The apex court had on March 21 upheld Dutt’s conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case which it said was organised by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and others.

Supreme Court had reduced his prison term from six to five years

The Supreme Court had reduced to five years the six- year jail-term awarded to him by a court in 2006, ruling out his release on probation saying the “nature” of his offence was “serious”.

Since Dutt has already spent one and a half years in prison, he is now to undergo three and a half years in jail. The apex court had earlier directed him to surrender himself before the court on May 15.

The Apext Court had last month rejected Dutt’s plea that he be given six more months to surrender to allow him to finish pending films. The court gave him one month to wrap up his work.

Dutt was convicted by the TADA court for illegal possession a 9 mm Pistol and an AK-56 rifle which was part of the consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for coordinated serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured over 700 in Indian business capital Mumbai in 1993.

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