The Supreme Court has given actor Sanjay Dutt another four weeks of freedom before returning to jail while the judges stressed on the factor that their decision was on "humanitarian grounds".

Furthermore, the actor, who was declared guilty last month for illegally possessing weapons in a case linked to the 1993 blasts in Mumbai, was meant to return to prison by tomorrow. He had applied earlier this week for six months before he began his prison sentence while his lawyers had said he would like to complete filming of movies in which over a hundred crores have been invested. 

The CBI had argued against Mr Dutt. Yesterday, the Supreme Court rejected the appeals of 70-year-old Zaibunissa Kazi and two others, who had also asked for some more time before being imprisoned in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Fact-fully, the Supreme Court last month sentenced Mr Dutt to five years for possessing firearms supplied by men who executed the string of bombings in 1993 that killed 257 people in Mumbai. In fact, Mr Dutt had already served 18 months of his sentence but was released on bail while his case was appealed. He now has to serve the remaining three-and-a-half-years of his term.

As a concluding fact, at an emotional press conference last month, he had said he would not appeal against his sentence. 

It's really good to see that the decision was on "humanitarian grounds".

(AW:Samrat Biswas)