New Delhi:
The Supreme Court will take up on Friday Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt's plea seeking review of decision to uphold his conviction under the Arms Act and sentencing him to five years in jail in 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.
A bench of Justices P Sathasivam and BS Chauhan, which had delivered the March 21 verdict, will take up the review plea and will also consider similar pleas made by other six convicts in the case.
The other six convicts who filed review petitions are Yusuf Mohsin Nulwalla, Khalil Ahmed Sayed Ali Nazir, Mohamed Dawood Yusuf Khan, Shaikh Asif Yusuf, Muzammil Umar Kadri and Mohd Ahmed Shaikh.
A day before the deadline for his surrender ended, the Supreme Court had on April 17 granted the 53-year-old actor four weeks' time to surrender before jail authorities to undergo 42 months remaining sentence in the case.
The Supreme Court had on March 21 upheld his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case. However, it had reduced the six-year jail-term awarded to him by a designated TADA court in 2006 to five years, ruling out his release on probation saying the "nature" of his offence was "serious".
Sanjay Dutt was convicted by the TADA court for illegal possession a 9 mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle which was part of the consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for coordinated serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured over 700.