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Sanjay Dutt To Be Released From Jail On 27 February

Sanjay Dutt To Be Released From Jail On 27 February
MUMBAI, INDIA - DECEMBER 21: Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt interacts with media after he was granted a month-long parole, the Bollywood actor was released from Pune's Yerwada Jail earlier on December 21, 2013 in Mumbai, India. Dutt, undergoing remainder of his five-year jail term for possessing illegal firearms, part of a cache of weapons meant to be used during the 1993 blasts, was granted parole on December 6. (Photo by Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)
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MUMBAI, INDIA - DECEMBER 21: Indian Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt interacts with media after he was granted a month-long parole, the Bollywood actor was released from Pune's Yerwada Jail earlier on December 21, 2013 in Mumbai, India. Dutt, undergoing remainder of his five-year jail term for possessing illegal firearms, part of a cache of weapons meant to be used during the 1993 blasts, was granted parole on December 6. (Photo by Satish Bate/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

MUMBAI -- Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case and currently lodged in Pune's high-security Yerawada Central Prison, will walk out of jail on 27 February after the Maharashtra government cleared a proposal for remission of his sentence.

Dutt is being given remission as per the jail manual after clearance from the Home department, a senior official said.

Minister for State (Home) Ranjit Patil signed the file allowing Dutt's release, without penalising him for reporting late from his furlough in January 2015.

Dutt was sentenced to five-year imprisonment after he was convicted for possessing an illegal weapon, part of the cache meant to be used during the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts in which 257 people were killed.

The 56-year-old actor was jailed in 1996 and spent 18 months behind bars before walking out on bail.

In 2013, the Supreme Court sentenced him to five years in prison for the crime.

Dutt is now completing the remaining prison term of 42 months.

After he was sent to Yerawada jail in May 2013, Dutt had been out on parole twice and an equal number of times on furlough.

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