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<keyword id="143" type="CITY" weightage="80" keywordseo="Bollywood">Bollywood</keyword> actor <keyword id="7645" type="PERSON" weightage="80" keywordseo="Sanjay-Dutt">Sanjay Dutt</keyword> who’s serving five-year sentence at the Yerawada central prison in Pune for illegal possession and destruction of an AK-56 rifle in 1993 serial blasts case, will be released on February 25. 
 
The actor will be released on February 25, 103 days ahead of the official end of his prison term on the grounds of 'good conduct', a senior official said here today. 
 Dutt, who was convicted in the <keyword id="69397" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="80" keywordseo="1993-Mumbai-blasts">1993 Mumbai blasts</keyword> case for possessing illegal weapons and sentenced to five years in jail, had already served 18 months before the verdict was pronounced. 
 
The actor is serving 42 months of his remaining jail term, after the Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 2013. 
 
After being granted a 14-day furlough in December 2014, he was expected to report back to jail on January 7 but sought an extension of furlough from jail authorities. The jail authorities, however, informed Dutt about it being rejected only on January 9. 
 
Dutt was given a clean chit for this delay, after an inquiry into the matter. The Home department had served a memo to two officials from the Yerwada central prison for the delay in making a decision. 
 
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Sanjay Dutt to be released from Yerawada prison on February 25

<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a>, who was hanged in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=nagpur+jail">Nagpur jail</a> on Thursday, was buried alongside his father’s tomb. 
 
His body was handed over to his family members in Mumbai. 
 
Memon, 1993 <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=mumbai+blasts">Mumbai blasts</a> convict, was hanged at 6.35 am after the Supreme Court dismissed his curative petition and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=pranab+mukherjee">President Pranab Mukherjee</a> rejected his mercy petition on July 29. 
 
Hours before his hanging, Memon offered namaz and read the holy Quran and was provided with a fresh set of clothes. 
 
Nagpur’s Chief judicial magistrate M M Deshpande was present and she read out the operating part of the TADA court order which awarded capital punishment to Memon before he was made to stand on a stool and the lever pulled by the hangman. 
 
A team of doctors declared him dead and a post-mortem was conducted by a team from a Nagpur hospital. 
 
Ironically, Memon, who was a chartered accountant by profession, was hanged on his birthday. He turned 53 today. 
 
He had reacted with an angry outburst saying "innocent people are being called terrorists" when a TADA court here had pronounced him guilty on September 12, 2006. 
 
After hearing the verdict, he had said, "We do not want to engage lawyers to argue on quantum of sentence...13 years have passed and innocent people are being called terrorists." 
 
Blasts in Mumbai, then known as Bombay, in 1993 had killed 257 people and Memon was convicted as the "driving spirit" behind the serial blasts in India's financial capital. 
 
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Yakub Memon buried with Islamic rites

A Special Terrorism And Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (<keyword id="6446612" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="TADA">TADA</keyword>) Court has found deported mafia don <keyword id="29205" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="abu-salem">Abu Salem</keyword> guilty in the March 1993 Mumbai serials blasts which claimed 257 lives. <keyword id="6357470" type="COMPANY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Salem">Salem</keyword>, who was extradited from <keyword id="6359079" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Portugal">Portugal</keyword> in 2005, was charged with supplying the arms and ammunition, including the deadly RDX, which were used in the blasts. Besides Salem, four others have also been found guilty under various charges in the same case, as the <keyword id="121350" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="60" keywordseo="special-court">Special Court</keyword> delivers its verdict on Friday. Mustafa Dossa, Abu Salem, Feroz Abdul Rashid Khan, Taher Merchant, Riyaz Siddiqui, Abdul Qayyum Shaikh and <keyword id="1238651" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Karimullah-Khan">Karimullah Khan</keyword> face multiple charges including criminal conspiracy, waging war against the Government of India and murder under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (TADA).

Abu Salem and 4 others convicted in 1993 Mumbai blast case that killed 257; sentence awaited

Days after the nation celebrated its <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=independence+day">69th Independence Day</a> and the national capital was beefed-up with security personals, the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Delhi+police">Delhi police</a> has now received an email talking about a bomb attack on the <keyword id="75952" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Supreme-Court-of-India">Supreme Court of India</keyword>. 
 The <keyword id="6358992" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="20" keywordseo="Delhi-Police">Delhi police</keyword> has received an email threatening a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=bomb+attack+">bomb attack </a>on the apex court days after a death threat was made against the apex court’s judge Justice <keyword id="6355251" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Dipak-Misra">Dipak Misra</keyword>. 
 
The email was received on Monday following which the security inside and around the premises has been tightened up. The highest court of India is located at Tilak Marg in Delhi. 
 
Incidentally, Justice Misra is one of the three Supreme Court judges who turned down the final plea against hanging of 1993 <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Mumbai+blasts+">Mumbai blasts </a>convict <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Yakub+Memon">Yakub Memon</a>. 
 
Police said the mail first landed in the inbox of a person, whose identity was not disclosed, who forwarded it to them. 
 
As per a police officer, the mail has been forwarded to a special cell.

Someone wants to bomb the Supreme Court of India!

India won’t let <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=1993+Mumbai+blasts">1993 Mumbai blasts</a> accused <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Dawood+Ibrahim+">Dawood Ibrahim</a> to rest in peace. The country will use all means at its disposal to nab the fugitive gangster, who has been based in <keyword id="3001" type="COUNTRY" weightage="60" keywordseo="Pakistan">Pakistan</keyword> for several years. 
 
In an interview, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Minister+of+state+for+Information+and+Broadcasting+">Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting Rajyavardhan Rathore</a> said all means — "saam, daam, dand, bhed" (all options from force to stealth) would be used to counter India's enemies.” 
 "India's enemies should not rest in peace. They should know every moment the <keyword id="6360789" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="80" keywordseo="Modi-Government">Modi government</keyword> is thinking of ways of acting against them," Rathore said. 
 
On being asked whether the government would use covert tactics or special operations, Rathore said: "These things are not discussed on TV. Once the action has been taken then you will get to know about it." 
 
He added that the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Modi+government+">Modi government</a> would not keep exchanging dossiers with <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=Pakistan+">Pakistan</a> on Dawood. "This government is committed to doing what it takes to act against India's enemies," he said. 
 The Bombay bombings were a series of 13 bomb explosions that happened on 12 March 1993. The single-day attacks resulted in over 350 fatalities and 1,200 injuries. It was coordinated by <keyword id="6357714" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dawood-Ibrahim">Dawood Ibrahim</keyword>, don of the Mumbai-based international organised crime syndicate named D-Company. 
 
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Indian government wants Dawood Ibrahim at any cost!

The Indian government has advised President Pranab Mukherjee to reject Mumbai serial blasts convict <keyword id="383370" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Yakub-Memon">Yakub Memon</keyword>’s mercy petition. 
 
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Secretary L C Goyal and a few other top official gathered at the PM’s residence, and came to the conclusion that the president should reject Memon’s plea. 
 
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=yakub+memon">Yakub Memon</a>, 1993 Mumbai blasts convict, is set be hanged after the <keyword id="6354977" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="Supreme-Court">Supreme Court</keyword> on Wednesday rejected his curative petition and dismissed all the contention raised by him. 
 Special Public Prosecutor <keyword id="73359" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ujjwal-Nikam">Ujjwal Nikam</keyword> informed that the apex court said that the curative petition was rightly dismissed. 
 
“SC has clearly held that death warrant issued to Yakub is legal and valid,” said Nikam. 
 
Memon will be hanged on July 30 at 7am at Nagpur jail. He had filed mercy petitions with with Maharashtra Governor and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/searchresult.cms?query=pranab+mukherjee">President Pranab Mukherjee</a> also. 
 
However, Maharashtra Governor Vidyasagar Rao also rejected his mercy petition. Now, all eyes are set on Mukherjee, whose final decision would be binding. 
 
“There is no hurdle in the way of execution now,” said senior lawyer, KTS Tulsi. 
 
Memon had claimed he was suffering from schizophrenia since 1996 and has remained behind bars for nearly 20 years. 
 
He sought commutation of his death sentence to life imprisonment. 
 
A series of blasts had rocked Mumbai on March 12, 1993, leaving 257 dead and over 700 injured. 
 
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Government advises President to reject Yakub Memon's plea

The proposed National Security Advisor-level talks between India and <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Gurdaspurstrike-Militants-may-have-sneaked-in-from-Pakistan/articleshow/48239615.cms">Pakistan</a> later this month is likely to be dominated by talks of Gurdaspur terror attacks. India will submit to Pakistan evidence that the three terrorists who carried out <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Gurdaspur-terror-attack-Operation-over-all-terrorists-killed/articleshow/48238586.cms">attacks</a> in <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/Top-security-officials-fear-more-Gurdaspur-like-terror-attempts/articleshow/48250531.cms">Gurdaspur</a> had come from across the border. 
 
Sources privy to the development told PTI that the Indian side could also bring up <a href="http://www.businessinsider.in/10-worst-terrorist-attacks-to-rock-India/articleshow/48237865.cms">terror cases</a> related to wanted gangster and mastermind of 1993 Mumbai blasts <keyword id="6357714" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Dawood-Ibrahim">Dawood Ibrahim</keyword> during the meeting, which was agreed to at the meeting Prime Minister <keyword id="6354477" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Narendra-Modi">Narendra Modi</keyword> and his Pakistani counterpart <keyword id="6576" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Nawaz-Sharif">Nawaz Sharif</keyword> in <keyword id="271311" type="CITY" weightage="100" keywordseo="Ufa">Ufa</keyword> in Russia last month. 
 
"Everything will be on table. The agencies are collecting evidence in the case of the Gurdaspur terror attack. The soil samples found in the boots of the three killed terrorists have been sent for investigation," they said. 
 
Sources added the evidence in connection with the Gurdaspur attack is still being collected and collated by the agencies to prepare "solid proof" to prove the cross-border conspiracy that killed seven persons--three civilians, Superintendent of Police (Detective), Baljit Singh, a Punjab provincial service officer and three home guards. 
 They said a dossier will also be prepared and handed over to the other side during the meeting, like the Indian case against 26/11 Mumbai attack mastermind and <keyword id="41305" type="ORGANIZATION" weightage="100" keywordseo="LeT">LeT</keyword> commander Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi who is now out on bail. 
 Similar proof against terror mastermind <keyword id="44106" type="PERSON" weightage="100" keywordseo="Hafiz-Saeed">Hafiz Saeed</keyword>, who India has time and again said has been roaming freely in the neighbouring country, will be shared with Pakistan across the table, they said. 
 
They said all other matters pertaining to cross-border terror cases would be brought on the table, backed by "water-tight" evidence. 
 
The sources, however, said a firm proposal and agenda for the talks, proposed by India between August 23-24, has not been prepared. 
 
Despite the two Premiers agreeing to re-start talks on bilateral issues during their meeting in Ufa, the recent Gurdaspur terror attack and a spate of ceasefire violations by Pakistan along the border has escalated tension between the two countries. 
 
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Gurdaspur
terror attacks to be discussed in Indo-Pak NSA talks later this month

Few weeks are left for actor <keyword id="7645" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Sanjay-Dutt">Sanjay Dutt</keyword>’s release from Pune’s Yerwada jail, where he is serving sentence after he was convicted in 1993 Mumbai blasts case, and legal experts are expecting some sort of a rebound in legal discourse surrounding such cases. 
 
Dutt, who was out on prolonged furloughs during the time he served his sentence in prison from May 2013, will make his way out of the jail for once and for all on February 25 this year. The reason for his release, seven months before the five-year sentence, is cited as ‘good behaviour’ in the jail. 
 
The first course of action has already started rolling out. One of the convicts in former PM Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, Perarivalan, has sought to know the grounds of Dutt’s release. He was serving reminiscent prison sentence of 42 months from the time he went behind bars amidst much drama surrounding his return to prison when the sentence was commuted. 
 
Perarivalan has used the Right to Information Act, one of the most democratic weapons Indians have against the lagging administrative and judicial system. Perarivalan is currently lodged in Vellore Central Prison. 
 
Activists are already building arguments around Dutt’s impending release saying ‘good conduct’ is not a ground for release under serious cases such as TADA under which Dutt was jailed. 
 
Though the proposal granting his remittance is yet to be cleared by the Maharashtra government, speculations are rife that the proposal would be given ‘due’ importance and a certain amount of surety will be demanded from Dutt. 
 
An activist Pradeep Bhalekar has filed a PIL in Bombay High Court questioning this step taken by the authorities in Dutt’s case which would send ‘wrong’ message to the society. 
 
Bhalekar claims there are nearly 27,740 prisoners who have been jailed across the state under charges that are lighter than that the actor faces. If they cannot be freed, how was Dutt’s case considered to be above them, and above the law which is deemed to be equal for all? 
 
This would also send somewhat a mixed message to the convicts of various crimes that no matter how serious the crime is, one can supersede the law using the same contexts that set the stage for their arrest and conviction. 
 
Meanwhile, Bollywood awaits its Munna Bhai with great anticipation. New scripts, new releases and new stories will hit the screen, adding excitement and some great economy to the biggest employer of this nation—the Bollywood. 
 
The next series of Munna Bhai, directed by Rajkumar Hirani, is being planned coinciding with days when the actor turns a free bird. 
 
Bollywood has been in the centre of storm over legalities owing to the huge economical margins they set in motion with their presence on the screen. Their on-screen persona should not influence their off-screen activities, which are sometimes more than questionable. 
 
For instance, when Bollywood actor Salman Khan, considered to be a mega force in the industry, was granted bail soon after his conviction in hit-and-run case, the reaction on social media and the celebration that followed showed societal emotions override all legal modalities when it comes to heroes who are demigods in the country since a long time. 
 
Dutt’s release before time will surely send a mixed bag of signals to the society on this front. On the other hand, should a man/actor/celebrity be dealt more sternly than required just because of his personality being in the public eye? This is another question that would haunt the society in some ways, which would disturb the equilibrium of the law as well. 
 
Should Dutt complete the sentence, foregoing all the privileges that have been granted by the law to all citizens? What would then be the incentive for a convicted person to go on the path of reformation and regret should he be kept out from this provision? 
 
It is a well established fact that while Dutt serves his sentence in the prison, has always maintained good relations with his fellow prison mates and has show exemplary behavior that can set the stage for a lot of people to emulate his conduct while they bow before the verdict of law. 
With that, the question remains. Should he, or shouldn’t he be released? 
 
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