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 food and medicines will be provided by the jail. The court says electronic cigarettes will not be allowed in jail.
3:56 pm: Sanjay Dutt requests court for home-cooked food, electronic cigarette and medicines. The CBI opposes it saying special treatment cannot be given to a convict.
3:12 pm: Sanjay Dutt surrenders in TADA court.
2:46 pm: Sanjay Dutt enters TADA court to surrender after appealing to the people to let him surrender.
2:42 pm: Bollywood producer-director Mahesh Bhatt comes out of the car and appeals to the crowd to let Sanjay Dutt surrender.
2:40 pm: A large number of media personnel and onlookers surround Sanjay Dutt's car. Police personnel were outnumbered and had a tough time controlling the crowd so that Sanjay Dutt could come out of the car and enter the TADA courtroom.
2:35 pm: Sanjay Dutt reaches TADA court to surrender in the 1993 Bombay blasts case.
1:41 pm: Fifteen cars with Sanjay Dutt's family and friends have left for the TADA court.
1:35 pm: Actor Sanjay Dutt leaves home with wife Manyata and producer-director Mahesh Bhatt to surrender in a TADA court.
Before Dutt left for the court, a steady streamline of celebrities arrived at the 53-year-old actor's suburban residence to support him. Actors Salman Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Ajay Devgn and directors David Dhawan, Sanjay Gupta and Apoorva Lakhia (with whom Dutt worked in 'Zanjeer' remake) visited Dutt on Wednesday night at his residence in Imperial Heights in suburban Bandra.
Directors Rajkumar Hirani and Milan Luthria, businessman and Shilpa Shetty's husband Raj Kundra, Bhushan Kumar, producers Rahul Agarwal and Vashu Bhagnani, politician Kripashankar Singh and actor Kiran Kumar arrived at Dutt's residence on Thursday morning.
The actor has to surrender in a TADA court in connection with 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 his conviction in the 1993 Bombay blasts case under Arms Act. And since the actor has already served 18 months of his five-year long sentence, he will now have to serve three and a half years. On April 17, the Supreme Court had granted the actor an extension of four weeks to finish his incomplete films.
In the last one month, he has managed to complete most of his pending films which include Policegiri, Rensil De Silva's Unglee, Apoorva Lakhia's remake of Zanjeer and Raj Kumar Hirani's PK.
As for fans of Dutt, he will next be seen in a film titled 'Hum Hai Raahi Car Ke' which is set to release on May24, just days after the actor surrenders.
Dutt was held guilty by the TADA court in 2007 under the Arms Act for possession of an automatic rifle, but he was acquitted under the stringent TADA (Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act), with the trial judge observing that he was not a 'terrorist'. The court accepted his confessional statement that he had procured the weapon for self-defence during the riots.
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