Sanjay loses last court appeal

Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, lost his final appeal on Tuesday against a decision by the Supreme Court to uphold his conviction.

Dutt, 53, surrendered in May to serve the remaining three-and-a-half years of a five-year term in a case linked to the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings after the Supreme Court reaffirmed his conviction.

‘The (appeal) petition has been rejected,’ a senior court official, who could not be named, told media, adding the actor had now exhausted the appeal process against his conviction.

Dutt had filed a so-called ‘curative’ petition, arguing there were legal errors in the Supreme Court’s March ruling upholding his conviction, reports The Straits Times.