Bollywood's Sanjay Dutt set for jail after court rejects review

Bollywood
actor Sanjay Dutt is set
to go to prison next
week after India's
Supreme Court on Friday
rejected a petition
seeking a review of his
earlier jail sentence for
firearms offences
during the Mumbai
blasts 20 years ago.
Dutt, popular for his role
as a do-good gangster
in the "Munnabhai"
films, was sentenced
to six years jail in 2007
for acquiring illegal
weapons from men
convicted for the 1993
attacks that killed 257
people.
He served 18 months
but has been out on bail
ever since, fighting the
conviction.
In March, the Supreme
Court reduced the 53-
year-old actor's
sentence to five years
and ordered him back to
jail, but in April the court
gave the actor four
extra weeks of
freedom to finish some
of his Bollywood films.
The court's rejection of
the petition means the
actor must now turn
himself into custody on
May 16 to serve the
rest of his sentence.
"Now his only remedy is
to file a curative
petition, which will also
be dismissed by the top
court, as the same
judges will hear it in
their chamber," Shivaji
Jadhav, one of the
lawyers present in
court on Friday, told
Reuters.
The actor was the
most high profile of 100
people involved in the
Mumbai bombings trial
which ended in 12
people receiving the
death penalty and
lifetime sentences for
others.
In 2007, Dutt was
cleared of conspiracy
charges in the attacks
but found guilty of
illegal possession of an
AK-56 rifle and a pistol,
which he claimed he
required to protect
himself and his family
during a period of rioting
in Mumbai.
Projects worth up to 2.5
billion rupees ($46
million) and the fate of
several Bollywood
movies hang in the
balance with Dutt
heading back to jail.
The actor has at least
four films in the
pipeline, including
"Peekay", "Policegiri",
"Unglee" and a remake
of the 1973 hit
"Zanjeer."