1993 Bombings: Sanjay Dutt held in Ajmal Kasab’s cell: Report

Steel bunker specially built for Kasab at Mum had no ventilation: Lawyer


Afp May 19, 2013
File photo of Sanjay Dutt. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

NEW DELHI:


Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said on Saturday.


Sanjay’s lawyer, Rizwan Merchant, has demanded the transfer of the actor whom he said was being kept in the cell once occupied by Mumbai attacks gunman Ajmal Kasab, according to The Indian Express.

The steel bunker specially built for Kasab at Mumbai’s Arthur Road Jail had no ventilation and the actor could not even tell if it was day or night, the lawyer said.

Sanjay, 53, surrendered on Thursday to serve out the remaining three-and-a-half years of a five-year term in a case linked to the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings. Kasab was executed by India last November.

“He (Sanjay) is not a terrorist” and should not be kept in such a cell, the lawyer was quoted as saying.

The actor was convicted in 2006 of possessing guns supplied by gangsters who staged the 1993 bomb attacks that killed 257 people but was freed on bail after serving 18 months in prison. In March, the Supreme Court of India upheld Sanjay’s conviction. 

Published in The Express Tribune, May 19th, 2013.

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