Indian Supreme Court to hear Review Petition of Sanjay Dutt

Actor Sanjay Dutt to appear before the India Supreme Court for the review petition today. The review petition was filed after the court had upheld his conviction under the Arms Act. The court convicted Sanjay Dutt under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. Sanjay Dutt was condemned by the TADA court for illegal possession of a 9 mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle, which was part of the
shipment of weapons and explosives, which had been brought to India for co-ordinating serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured over 700.
A bench of P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan, which had delivered March 21 verdict, will take up the review plea in the chamber. It will also consider similar pleas made by the other six convicts in the case. ReadMore