Bollywood star Dutt gets bail
27/11/2007 09:51  - (SA)  

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New Delhi - India's Supreme Court on Tuesday granted Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt bail on a six-year prison term handed down for possessing illegal weapons.

But the court ordered Dutt to provide an unspecified surety and leave his passport with authorities, the Press Trust of India reported.

Defence lawyer Farhanaaz Shaha told NDTV it would take several days for the paper work to be arranged for Dutt to leave his cell in the western city of Pune.

He was sentenced in July for possessing illegal weapons from the plotters of the 1993 Mumbai bombings, which killed 257 people and wounded 800.

The superstar admitted to buying a Kalashnikov assault rifle but insisted he only did so to protect his family from sectarian violence.

The son of a politically prominent Hindu father and a Muslim mother who was an actress, Dutt's turbulent off-screen life has also been wracked by drug abuse and two failed marriages.

- AFP

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