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Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt had 'nexus' with Anees Ibrahim, brother of prime accused fugitive gangster Dawood Ibrahim, but there is no evidence to connect him with 1993 Mumbai blasts conspiracy, special TADA judge Pramod Kode has said in his judgement which convicted the Bollywood star.

Dutt was sentenced to six years rigorous imprisonment under the Arms Act by the court for the illegal possession of an AK-56 rifle and pistol by the TADA court. However, the court had acquitted him under TADA.

Dutt received his copy of the judgement on Monday. "It is true that the matters from the confession of A-117 (Dutt) amongst others also reveal of him knowing Anees or Anees visiting the shooting of the film Yalgaar or other places of stay of the shooting party," Judge Kode has noted in his judgement.

"Thus, the said matters though sufficient to reveal existence of some nexus between A-117 and Anees, still the said material cannot be stretched far enough to come to the conclusion that the weapons were received or handed over to A-117 because of the relationship," the court has observed.

The court also absolved Dutt of the charge of conspiracy, stating that when the actor received the arms, the main conspirators had not effected the landing at Shekhadi in Raigad where the explosives for the blasts had arrived in the country.

The judgement also noted that the conspiracy was finalised at a meeting in Dubai on March 5, 1993 much after Dutt had received the arms.