Click to play videoNew Delhi: Two days of agonising wait later, actor Sanjay Dutt walked out of Pune’s Yerwada jail early on Thursday morning.
Accompanied by his brother-in-law Kumar Gaurav, friend Yusuf Nalwala and lawyer Satish Maneshinde, Dutt immediately got into a waiting Tata Sumo and left for Pune airport from where he boarded a chartered flight to Mumbai's Santa Cruz airport.
Dressed in a white striped shirt and faded blue jeans, a hassled-looking Dutt hurriedly got into the vehicle without as much as waving to the contingent of mediamen waiting outside the jail.
Dutt was released at 0530 hrs (IST) - an unusually early hour - to avoid crowds gathered outside the jail since Monday.
The actor – sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case – was granted an interim bail by Supreme Court last week, but could not be freed for two days due to legal hassles.
The papers related to SC order did not reach the Yerawada jail authorities till Wednesday, where the actor was serving his sentence for illegally receiving guns from gangsters involved in the 1993 bombings.
The snail's pace of the processes and procedures cost Dutt two of his seven days of bail.
A special TADA court in Mumbai, which sentenced Dutt, handed over bail papers to his lawyers on Wednesday, following which the proceedings were hastened.
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt was the first to react to the news of Dutt's release. "Better late than never. I am happy for Sanjay and I hope the family is bailed out of tough times soon," he said.
"I hope he can use this time to invigorate himself for the legal battle that lies ahead. Let him be with his family and leave him alone. I have always said that it was too reckless a punishment for his crime. But there's always hope," Bhatt added
Speaking to TV 18 network from New York Dutt’s daughter, Trishala Dutt said, "I am very happy after my father's release. I was very sure that he would walk as a free man. I am very lucky to be his daughter. I will come down to India very soon. I am looking forward to spend the maximum time with my father."
New Delhi: Two days of agonising wait later, actor Sanjay Dutt walked out of Pune’s Yerwada jail early on Thursday morning.
Accompanied by his brother-in-law Kumar Gaurav, friend Yusuf Nalwala and lawyer Satish Maneshinde, Dutt immediately got into a waiting Tata Sumo and left for Pune airport from where he boarded a chartered flight to Mumbai's Santa Cruz airport.
Dressed in a white striped shirt and faded blue jeans, a hassled-looking Dutt hurriedly got into the vehicle without as much as waving to the contingent of mediamen waiting outside the jail.
Dutt was released at 0530 hrs (IST) - an unusually early hour - to avoid crowds gathered outside the jail since Monday.
The actor – sentenced to six years’ imprisonment in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case – was granted an interim bail by Supreme Court last week, but could not be freed for two days due to legal hassles.
The papers related to SC order did not reach the Yerawada jail authorities till Wednesday, where the actor was serving his sentence for illegally receiving guns from gangsters involved in the 1993 bombings.
The snail's pace of the processes and procedures cost Dutt two of his seven days of bail.
A special TADA court in Mumbai, which sentenced Dutt, handed over bail papers to his lawyers on Wednesday, following which the proceedings were hastened.
Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt was the first to react to the news of Dutt's release. "Better late than never. I am happy for Sanjay and I hope the family is bailed out of tough times soon," he said.
"I hope he can use this time to invigorate himself for the legal battle that lies ahead. Let him be with his family and leave him alone. I have always said that it was too reckless a punishment for his crime. But there's always hope," Bhatt added
Speaking to TV 18 network from New York Dutt’s daughter, Trishala Dutt said, "I am very happy after my father's release. I was very sure that he would walk as a free man. I am very lucky to be his daughter. I will come down to India very soon. I am looking forward to spend the maximum time with my father."
Reacting to the news, actor Amitabh Bachchan said, “I am relieved and happy. I hope things go well for Sanju in the coming days as well.”
Actor Anil Kapoor who was shooting for a film in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan said that he was very happy to hear the news.
“It is a great thing. I am happy for the entire family. We are looking forward to seeing Sanjay,” Kapoor said.
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