By IANS
New Delhi : The Supreme Court has fixed Friday for hearing Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt’s petition seeking bail and challenging his conviction under the Arms Act in the 1993 Mumbai bombings case.
The day was decided after senior counsel Fali S. Nariman Wednesday mentioned the matter before a five-judge bench headed by Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan that is also hearing the issue of reservations for backward classes centrally-funded educational institutions.
The other members of the bench are Justices Arjit Pasayat, C.K. Thakkar, R.V. Raveendaran and Dalveer Bhandari.
Dutt, who is in a Pune jail, has been sentenced to six years by an anti-terror TADA court that convicted him for being in possession of illegal weapons, which he later destroyed.
The actor has sought interim bail pending a decision on his appeal challenging the verdict of the anti-terror TADA court in Mumbai.
He said he deserved relief from the court as he had earlier been on bail for about 12 years and had never given the investigating agency or the trial court any reason for complaint.
Dutt, who has served 16 months in jail, added that he had exhibited exemplary conduct while he was on bail.
He has also challenged his conviction on grounds that he could not have been convicted on his confessional statement for possessing weapons as he had retracted it later.