Mumbai, May 17 -Actor Sanjay Dutt who surrendered on Thursday will be filing a curative petition soon in the Supreme Court to appeal against his sentence. The news about Dutt filing a review petition came on the day that the 53 year old actor who has been sentenced to three and a a half years imprisonment for his role in the 1993 blasts case.
Dutt’s lawyer Rizwan Merchant informed special TADA Judge G A Sanap that they would be filing a ‘curative petition in the apex court soon.’ Merchant informed Sanap when Dutt had surrendered before Sanap and the formalities were being done to send him to jail to serve his remaining sentence. While the official order has not arrived, it is expected that Dutt would be sent to Pune’s Yerawada Jail along with his co accussed Yusuf Nulwalla. In fact Dutt also asked the court to send him to Yerawada prison in Pune.
Among other things Dutt also requested the court since he has some ailments he be allowed to have home cooked food and medicines in the jail. He also wanted e cigarettes and bedding from home to be allowed to be used in the jail. However while the judge allowed him home cooked food for a month and medicines. The e-cigarettes and bedding from home were rejected by the judge.
