Bollywood star actor Sanjay Dutt, awaiting sentence after being convicted for his role in the 1993 Mumbai terror bombings, was Saturday asked by a special anti-terrorism court to appear before it July 27.
The special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act (TADA) Court having already sentenced 87 of the 100 convicts and it will now take up the sentencing of the remaining bomb planters, the four members of the the family of absconding prime accused Tiger Memon as well as Dutt and three others who are convicted under the Arms Act.
Asking Dutt to be present in the court on July 27, Special TADA Judge Pramod Kode said he would take up the sentencing of the remaining bomb planters and the four members of the Memon family before that.
“We will continue the sentencing of the Mahim Causeway group (of those who planted explosives in that suburb) on Tuesday and then take up the sentencing of the remaining convicts,” he said.
Dutt, convicted under the Arms Act, has pleaded for relief under the Probation of Offenders Act.
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