Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt released of yerwada jail after 42 months
Pune : Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was released on Thursday morning after spending 42 months in Pune’s Yerwada Jail in connection with the arms case related to the 1993 Mumbai blasts.
The 56-year-old, Dutt said that ”There’s no easy walk to freedom”.
He was sentenced to undergo five years’ rigorous imprisonment for illegal possession of arms during the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts.
Arrested in 1993, Dutt had already served 18 months as an undertrial and then returned to jail in May 2013 to serve the remainder of his sentence.
He walked out of the blue-yellow painted YCJ gates carrying a huge bag of his personal belongings and a plastic bag of files and papers.
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Near the main gate, sporting a dark blue shirt and jeans, Dutt put the bag down, turned around and saluted the Indian tricolor fluttering atop the jail building where he spent a momentous part of his life.
Earlier, he thanked the police and jail staff but they took care not ro get too close or helpful with the actor, and let him lug his own bulky bag as he walked to the barricades near his waiting car.
Shortly after he walked out of the YCJ, he drove to Pune Airport at Lohegaon to board a chartered plane to Mumbai.
There, he spoke to the media and credited his fans for their unending support.
“He is here because of their (fans’) support. And there is no easy road to freedom, my friends,” He said.
Then he will go to the Bada Kabrastan in south Mumbai and pray at the grave of his mother the late actress Nargis Dutt who died of cancer.
After this, Dutt will go to his Bandra home, for his permanent ‘ghar wapasi’, meet his family and friends and is expected to interact with media in the afternoon.
She said: “I hope not… He is too simple a person… Politics has reached different levels. Hope he remains happy. He is looking forward to coming back to work. He was uncertain… (about his film career).”
The actor is yet to zero in on the new films that he will be working on.
