By IANS
New Delhi : The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Monday said it would oppose Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt’s bail plea in the Supreme Court.
“We will oppose Sanjay Dutt’s bail plea if his lawyers approach the Supreme Court for the same,” said CBI director Vijay Shankar about the actor who is in a Pune jail after he was sentenced to six years in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.
Shankar also denied reports that the CBI was planning to rope in lawyer Ujjwal Nigam, who argued the prosecution case in the Mumbai special court, to challenge Dutt’s bail plea.
“Though we haven’t finalised any lawyer yet, we are not considering Nigam’s services. We will follow the normal procedure,” Shankar said.
Dutt’s lawyers are likely to approach the apex court with bail petition later in the day.
Dutt, on whose shoulders rides about a billion rupees in investment from the Indian film industry, was sentenced to six years’ rigorous imprisonment for being in possession of ‘dangerous weapons’ in the 1993 Mumbai bombings case last week.
He was also fined Rs.25,000 by the special anti-terror TADA court, conducting the trial into the serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured many hundreds.