Journalism of Courage
Actor Sanjay Dutt who released from the Yerwada Jail, Pune today visited the Siddhivinayak temple soon as he landed in Mumbai in a chartered plane. After offering prayers at the temple with his wife Maanyata, the actor straight away went to his mother, actress Nargis' grave. Sanjay Dutt is known to have been very close to his mother.
Putting behind the torrid times since his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt today walked out a free man from the Yerawada Central prison here after being granted remission in his five-year sentence. (Source: Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
Waiting for him outside the jail at Pune were his wife Maanyata and friend and producer of blockbuster "Munnabhai" Rajkumar Hirani
as he drove to Pune airport to take an onward chartered flight to Mumbai. Speaking to reporters outside the Pune airport, the actor quipped that "There is no easy walk to freedom my friends".
Sanjay Dutt snapped while getting out of his car at the Bada Kabarsthan. (Source: Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
Dutt was set free after completing prison formalities at around 8.45 AM today (February 25) and came out escorted by police which had tightened security in the area. (Source: Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
He completed 42-months remaining of his five year sentence in Yerawada prison here as he had already spent 18 months in Mumbai's Arthur road jail as an under-trial. (Source: Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
Before Dutt's release this morning, a handful of protestors too had raised slogans in front of the prison protesting alleged the preferential treatment meted out to him by the authorities. (Source: Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
Though he availed of remission for "good behaviour", actor Sanjay Dutt was averse to wearing prison uniform while in the Arthur Road Jail in Mumbai where he had been lodged initially after conviction in the Mumbai blasts case before being moved to Yerawada prison. (Source: Express Photo by Amit Chakravarty)
