Pune
News:
Actor Sanjay Dutt was today shifted
from the Arthur Road Jail here to
Yerwada Jail near Pune after he
withdrew his application to be kept in
a prison in this city. Dutt, given a
six-year jail term in the 1993 blasts
case on Tuesday, withdrew his plea in
the special TADA court of Judge P D
Kode after authorities submitted a
report that cited several reasons why
he could not be kept at Arthur Road
Jail, which is meant only for persons
facing trial.
The
star, who was taken to a barrack in
Arthur Road Jail immediately after his
sentencing, was clad in a white shirt
and blue jeans when he was escorted by
policemen from here to Yerwada Jail in
the evening.
Earlier in the day, when Dutt's
application came up in the TADA court,
Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam
said the report cited the need to
provide security to the star and other
reasons why he could not be held in
the jail in central Mumbai.
There is no provision for work or
"jail industry" inside Arthur Road
Jail where Dutt could serve his
sentence of rigorous imprisonment for
six years, Nikam pointed out.
The report stressed that the jail is
meant only for under -trials and that
other persons sentenced in the blasts
case had been shifted out of it, he
said.
Judge
Kode disposed of the application after
Dutt's lawyer Farhana Shah withdrew
it.
Other convicts in the case have been
shifted to various prisons in
Maharashtra, including Yerwada Jail
and Nasik Jail.
