According to Dutt’s confession, at that time he possessed three valid licenses for firearms and possessed 270 Rifle of BRUNO make, a 375 Magnum Double barrelled Rifle and 12 Bore Gun of Double Barrel and he had purchased these weapons because of his fondness for hunting.Ms Shah filed a plea in HC against cancellation of special remission, but the court posted this matter for hearing on March 21 while the applicant is slated to come out of jail, without this remission, on March 24 and this petition would be of no use. “We don’t know if Sanjay Dutt was given any preferential treatment or not, but for other prisoners, life is not as easy and they have to struggle to get any relief, and often their applications are denied,” said advocate Farhana Shah, who has appeared for most of the accused in this case and has filed several miscellaneous applications seeking various kinds of relief for them. He raised questions over the grounds for granting Dutt remission. “Initially, I did not show any interest but when Hanif and Samir started repeatedly telling me to acquire a firearm from them, I gradually fell prey and expressed my desire to Hanif and Samir,” he had stated.

Also, some convicts in the 1993 blasts case believe they deserved some leniency, but often were deprived of the same. All of us used to get frightened and were under great mental tension,” reads his statement. He has also asked why those who had been charged with petty offences are rotting in jails. The jail authorities had decided to grant Chohan special remission because he had been doing conservative work, which included cleaning toilets since 2013, which prisoners avoid.We used to receive threatening calls, actor stated in confessionSanjay Dutt (56) was 36 years old when he accepted, in his confessional statement on April 28, 1993 in the blasts case, that he had possessed firearms that turned out to be part of a consignment smuggled into India for the blasts. Anonymous callers used to threaten us about killing or assaulting family members and molesting or raping my sisters. “We used to receive threatening telephone calls. He had said that he had mentioned these facts to a number of persons including Samir Hingora and Hanif Kadawalla, who told Dutt that he could arrange for automatic firearms for his personal protection. Dutt stated said that during the 1992-93 communal riots his father (veteran actor Sunil Dutt) used to organise relief work for victims and due to this he was called pro-muslim.

It was blown film extruder the actor’s confession, which was used as an evidence to prove his guilt, that helped him get an acquittal from the stringent Act of TADA. However, life for other convicts in the same case has not been easy, because they have to run pillar to post to get similar relief.Actor Sanjay Dutt will be a free man after stepping out of Yerwada prison in Pune on Thursday.According to Ms Shah, convicts of the blast case are being kept in a yard where prisoners from other yards cannot enter, but still jail authorities have claimed that inmates from other yards had complained that he was not doing his work properly and, hence, his remission was cancelled.Mentioning one such instance, she said that a month ago she had approached the Bombay high court on behalf of a convict, Ibrahim Moosa Chohan Chohan, seeking restoration of around 82 days’ special remission for him. Mr Bhalekar’s lawyer will mention this before a bench on Thursday.. But, at the last moment jail authorities decided not to grant him remission. In the meantime, activist Pradeep Bhalekar has filed the PIL seeking cancellation of government’s decision to grant remission to Dutt