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MUMBAI, SEPT 2: Actor Sanjay Dutt seems to court trouble wherever he goes. Making headlines for all the wrong reasons, Sanjay who is abroad for performing in live shows could add to his legal woes if the lensman he allegedly assaulted decides to press charges.
Sanjay is reported to have roughed up a lensman in Birmingham who took a shot of him of him with his arm intertwined with actress Sushmita Sen. The incident is said to have occurred last Saturday. The lensman who was unable to click his pictures backstage approached the actor while he was getting into the elevator of a local hotel. Sanjay reportedly grabbed the camera and shoved it on the lensman’s face hurting him. He is also supposed to have foul-mouthed him, reports add.
Sanjay was granted permission by the designated TADA judge Pramod Kode to be away from India between August 25 – October 6, 2000. His counsel Farhana Shah told the court that her client is to perform stage shows in United Kingdom, USA and Europe accompanied by other artistes.
While acceding to the request, the court has imposed certain restrictions. The court is hearing the serial blasts cases in which Sanjay is an accused along with 128 others. While 31 accused still languishing in custody, Sanjay and the rest were freed on bail.
The court has allowed him to go abroad subject to stringent conditions include the clause that he will not misuse his liberty. If he is required to appear in court the prosecution will inform his lawyers who have to ensure his presence within 48 hours. He is not to tamper with evidence or maintain contact with any other absconding persons. Shah gave an undertaking to the court on behalf of the actor.
Sanjay is facing trial for his alleged involvemnet in the March 1993 serial blasts. The prosecution has accused him of receiving an AK-56 rifle and some weapons from co-accused Baba Chauhan, Samir Hingora and Hanif Kadawala at his Bandra residence. While he retained the AK-56 rifle and a couple of weapons, the rest were taken away from his house to the place of one Zebunissa also an accused.
Sanjay has been abroad over a dozen times since he was released on bail in October 1995. He visited the USA to see his late wife, actress Richa Sharma who was ailing, and his little daughter. The first time Sanjay went abroad on work was in 1997 for a 22-day trip to Utah, USA for the shooting of late Mukul Anand’s film Dus.
While in custody, Sanjay took recourse to religion and after his release he turned to religion and went to the shrines of Siddhivinayak, Mahim Dargah, Ajmer’s Dargah of Moinuddin Chishti.
Now Sanjay is back to his filmi role of bashing up who he perceives to be villians in real life life too, aka Vaastav. The Bandra police had not very long ago registered a complaint against him for assaulting an auto-rickshaw driver.
