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Sanjay Dutt released after 42 months in jail. Twitter verdict

DailyBiteFebruary 25, 2016 | 16:28 IST

After spending 42 long months in the Yerwada Jail, actor Sanjay Dutt today walked out of the prison a free man.

During his time in jail, he made paper bags and earned Rs 440. Dutt was sentenced to a five-year jail term after he was convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blasts case.

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Jailed for illegally possessing an AK-47 assault rifle in the March 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, Sanjay Dutt will walk a free man today. By the time Dutt was finally sentenced to five years imprisonment in 2013 the case had dragged on for exactly 20 years and he had already spent 18 months in prison as an undertrial.

The shadow that had loomed over him for two decades, something that Dutt had perhaps become accustomed to, will finally disappear forever when he walks out of the Yerwada prison, and a new Sanjay Dutt would return to the world that where things would be just the way he left them.

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Last updated: February 25, 2016 | 16:28
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