Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who stood by Sanjay Dutt during his trying times, is confident the actor will make a fresh start after completing his jail term.
Sanjay surrendered at the TADA Court Thursday to serve his remaining three-and-a-half year jail term in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case. The actor will be moved to Pune's Yerwada jail.
"Sanjay has decided that he will face his jail sentence with dignity. He will come out with huge energy and activeness. He will again do his best and lead life with a new beginning," Bhatt, who made films like 'Naam' and 'Sadak' with Sanjay, said here Thursday in an interview.
The Supreme Court in its March 21 decision, gave a final verdict on Sanjay's part in 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts. Initially, Sanjay was sentenced to six years jail in 2007, but had his sentence reduced by a year....
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05:56 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: A TADA court on Friday issued a non-bailable warrant against 1993 Bombay blasts co-accused Zaibunissa Kazi after she failed to surrender in the court on Friday, as per scheduled. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) will execute this warrant. The daughter of 70-year-old Zaibunissa was likely to seek a day more for her mother to surrender citing health reasons. The Supreme Court had earlier granted four weeks time to...
04:43 PM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Seventy-year-old Zaibunisa Kazi, who is a co-accused in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, will surrender in a TADA court in Mumbai on Friday. Her daughter, however, is likely to seek a day more for her mother to surrender citing health reasons. The Supreme Court had earlier granted four weeks time to Zaibunnisa to surrender in the court to serve the remaining sentence. Zaibunnisa had in April submitted a petition...
11:26 AM, May 17, 2013
Mumbai: Amidst chaos, crowd and cameras, the 1993 Bombay blasts accused and Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt surrendered in a Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (TADA) court on Thursday afternoon to serve his three-and-a-half year sentence. A large number of media persons and onlookers surrounded Dutt's car as he reached the court. Dutt will be taken to Arthur Road prison first, then to Yerwada Jail in Pune. TADA court directed the Mumbai...
05:40 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: 4:27 pm: Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who accompanied Sanjay Dutt to court, says, "Sanjay has surrendered in court and has asked for certain things like home-cooked food and medicines. There will be a new Sanjay Dutt when he comes back from the jail. 4:16 pm: Court allows home-cooked food, mattress, pillow and medicines in jail to Sanjay Dutt for a month, but after that he will have to eat jail...
01:39 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: There were early morning prayers and celebrity visitors at Sanjay Dutt's Bandra home, outside which stood hordes of fans, as the Bollywood actor prepared to return to prison Thursday. Sanjay started the day with solemn prayers and a 'havan' conducted by a priest with his family members participating in the ceremonies, according to sources. Since Wednesday night, Sanjay, 53, has been getting calls and visits from friends, colleagues and...
11:27 AM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will finally surrender in a TADA court in Mumbai on Thursday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Earlier he had filed an application requesting to be allowed to surrender directly at Pune's Yerwada Jail expressing fears of being chased by the media and threats from fundamentalists. However, the actor withdrew his application on Wednesday morning. Dutt will be surrendering two months after the Supreme Court upheld...
06:06 AM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt on Wednesday told a court here that he will surrender before it on Thursday to undergo the prison term in the 1993 Bombay blasts case, even as a jail official said he would be provided adequate security in the wake of an anonymous letter alleging threat to his life. Dutt's lawyer Subhash Yadav submitted before the special TADA court that the 53-year-old actor wanted to withdraw...
06:30 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will surrender at TADA court in Mumbai on Thursday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Dutt has withdrawn his application to surrender at Yerwada Jail in Pune which he had filed on Tuesday. Dutt's lawyer Subhash Jadhav informed the court that he wants to withdraw the application and he will surrender on Thursday. Dutt had expressed fears of being chased by the media and that he...
12:07 PM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Actor Sanjay Dutt will surrender at TADA court in Mumbai on Wednesday in the 1993 Bombay blasts case. Dutt has withdrawn his application to surrender at Yerwada Jail in Pune which he had filed on Tuesday. Dutt's lawyer informed the court that he wants to withdraw the application. Dutt had expressed fears of being chased by the media and that he faces threat from fundamentalists. Dutt on Tuesday told...
11:29 AM, May 15, 2013
Huge support for Sanjay Dutt from his friends in the film industry ahead of his surrender in 1993 Bombay blasts case. ...
10:06 AM, May 15, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt on Tuesday told a special TADA court that he faced threat to his life from fundamentalist groups. Dutt, convicted in 1993 bomb blasts case, urged the court in Mumbai to allow him to surrender before Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court. Judge GA Sanap, hearing the actor's application, asked CBI to file a reply and posted the hearing...
05:34 PM, May 14, 2013
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in 1993 bomb blasts case, on Tuesday urged a designated TADA court in Mumbai to allow him to surrender before Yerwada jail in Pune instead of giving himself up before the special court. Judge GA Sanap, hearing the actor's application, asked CBI to file a reply and posted the hearing on Dutt's plea on Wednesday. Public prosecutor Deepak Salvi appeared for the Government and...
03:29 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Friday will take up Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's plea seeking review of its March 21 judgement upholding his conviction under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. A bench of P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan, which had delivered March 21 verdict, will take up the review plea in chamber. It will also consider similar...
09:20 PM, May 09, 2013
Mumbai: An 85-year-old man awarded life sentence in the 1993 serial bomb blasts in the metropolis on Sunday died at his residence here. Ishaq Hajwane was at present out on bail. The Supreme Court had upheld his conviction by TADA court in March 2013. He was one of the convicts who along with actor Sanjay Dutt had been given one-month additional time to surrender by the apex court. "Ishaq Hajwane...
04:35 PM, May 05, 2013
Mumbai: Days after being granted one more month to surrender, actor Sanjay Dutt has filed a review petition in the Supreme Court challenging his conviction and five-year jail term in the 1993 Bombay serial blasts case. The review petition against the March 21 judgement of the apex court was filed by 53-year-old Dutt on Friday and is likely to come up for hearing next week, sources said. Dutt was held...
05:41 PM, Apr 21, 2013
Ahmedabad: Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the development that took place in Gujarat over the last 12 years has contributed immensely to the growth of the nation. Speaking at an event, he said "they may like it or not but political pundits and economists have to accept that in the last 12 years, the development that took place in Gujarat has contributed immensely to the growth of...
02:54 AM, Apr 20, 2013
"Justice", the new rallying cry on the streets and in the studios, can be awfully selective at times. The brutal gangrape of a Delhi girl ...
12:16 AM, Apr 05, 2013
