Dutt gets another furlough

Shiv Kumar

Tribune News Service

Mumbai, December 24

Actor Sanjay Dutt who is serving a prison sentence for possessing and destroying an AK56 assault rifle soon after the 1992-93 riots has been released from jail on a fortnight long furlough.

Dutt whose application for furlough was approved on Tuesday evening was released from Pune’s Yerwada jail this morning. The actor is expected to spend Christmas and New Year with his family.

A visibly slimmer Dutt arrived home in suburban Bandra later today. Sporting a stubble several days old, Dutt’s moustache similar to the one worn in latest Aamir Khan-starrer PK’ drew the attention of photographers stationed outside the actor’s house.

State home department sources say Dutt had applied for parole in November. Convicts with a record of exemplry conduct in prison are allowed a fortnight-long furlough every year. Sanjay Dutt had sought furlough in November last year on medical grounds.

He sought another round of parole in January this year following wife Maanyata’s illness. Both times, his furlough was extended by the authorities.