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| Bail for Bollywood's Sanjay Dutt | Bail for Bollywood's Sanjay Dutt |
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| Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, jailed for buying weapons from bombers who attacked Mumbai in 1993, has been given 'temporary' bail by the Supreme Court. | |
| Dutt was sentenced for six years three weeks ago and is being held in a prison in the western Indian city of Pune. | |
| The actor is the most high-profile of 100 people convicted in connection with the blasts which killed 257 people. | The actor is the most high-profile of 100 people convicted in connection with the blasts which killed 257 people. |
| He was cleared of conspiracy, but found guilty of illegally possessing a rifle and a pistol. | He was cleared of conspiracy, but found guilty of illegally possessing a rifle and a pistol. |
| Dutt's lawyers appealed for bail in the Supreme Court a fortnight ago. | |
| On Monday, the court ordered the actor's release on the grounds that a copy of the judgement, passed by the special anti-terror court in Mumbai, is yet to reach the actor. | |
| But court has specified that the relief is temporary. | |
| Hundreds of people were killed in the blasts | |
| The judge said as soon as the actor gets a copy of the Mumbai court order, he will have to surrender again and he will be sent back to jail. | |
| Only after that can the actor file an appeal for bail and the matter will be considered on merit, the judge added. | |
| The son of a Hindu father and Muslim mother, Sanjay Dutt said the weapons were necessary in order to defend his family during the Hindu-Muslim rioting of 1993 that followed the destruction by Hindu zealots of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya. | |
| The Mumbai blasts were allegedly carried out by Mumbai's (Bombay's) Muslim-dominated underworld in retaliation for the riots, in which most of those killed were Muslims. | |
| Dutt found fame playing gangsters and anti-heroes. | Dutt found fame playing gangsters and anti-heroes. |
| His trial generated huge interest among Bollywood fans across India. | His trial generated huge interest among Bollywood fans across India. |