Sanjay Dutt loses last legal battle

Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, looks down during a press conference at his residence in Mumbai, India, Thursday, March 28, 2013. Dutt said he has not sought pardon for a 1993 weapons conviction and will serve his prison sentence as ordered by India's Supreme Court. Dutt broke his silence a week after the court sentenced him to five years in prison for illegal possession of weapons supplied by Mumbai crime bosses linked to a 1993 terror attack that killed 257 people.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to entertain a curative petition from Sanjay Dutt, seeking reconsideration of the judgment upholding his conviction, under the Arms Act, in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts cases. The Bollywood actor was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

On May 10, the >court dismissed his review petition and >he surrendered on May 16 and since then he has been in prison. Now, with the dismissal of the curative petition, Mr. Dutt has lost the final legal battle. He has already spent 18 months in jail and will have to serve the remaining period.

A Bench of Chief Justice P. Sathasivam and Justices G.S. Singhvi, R.M. Lodha and B.S. Chauhan dismissed the curative petition through circulation in the chambers. It said: “No case is made out within the parameters indicated in the decision of this court in Rupa Ashok Hurra vs. Ashok Hurra [case] and another.”