Sanjay Dutt sentenced to 6 years in prison: TADA

The thirteen-year-long TADA trial in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case sentenced actor Sanjay Dutt to rigorous imprisonment for six years for illegal possession of arms.
Sanjay Dutt has also been ordered to pay a fine of Rs 25,000 while his bail bond has been cancelled.
The TADA court also orders that he be taken into custody.
While Yuusf Nulwalla has been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for five years under the Arms Act for aiding Dutt to dispose of AK-56 rifle.
While Rusi Mulla, convicted for aiding actor Sanjay Dutt to destroy an AK-56 rifle, gets benefit of Probation of Offenders Act.
He is to be released on payment of bond of Rs 1 lakh and a surety of same amount.
Among the ninety-six of the total hundred convicts in the blasts have been sentenced to various punishment so far, left behind are now Sanjay, Kersi Adjania, Yusuf Nallwala.
Sanjay, was convicted on 28th November last year under Arms Act for possessing an AK-56 rifle and 9mm chinese make pistol, obtained from co-accused Abu Salem prior to the blasts.

The other three were convicted for destroying the rifle in the foundry owned by Kersi Adjania.

What police could produce as an evidence was just a spring.

The court accepted Sanjay's plea that he obtained the weapons for self-defence, as because of his father Sunil Dutt's work among riots-hit Muslim areas, the family was getting threats.

Court held his intention was not to commit the terrorist act, otherwise he could have come in the purview of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act.

However, he was convicted under Arms Act, and faces sentence between five years to ten years.

He has applied under Probation of Offenders Act, under which a convict can apply for release on a bond of good conduct.

If judge Pramod Kode decides to give him benefit of POA, Sanjay will be spared the incarceration.

He has already undergone sixteen months' imprisonment as an undertrial.