October 23, 2007	Tuesday	Shawwal 10, 1428

MUMBAI, Oct 22: Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt was likely to return to jail after being given a copy on Monday of his judgement for illegal possession of guns, resolving a legal technicality, court officials said.

Mr Dutt was convicted of getting an AK-47 rifle and a pistol from gangsters involved in India’s worst bombings that killed 257 people in 1993, but he was absolved of conspiracy in that attack in the country’s financial capital.

He appealed against his six-year sentence in the Supreme Court and was allowed bail until he was served a copy of the more than 4,300-page judgement for the entire 1993 case by the special Mumbai court.

His lawyers contended that they could not argue his case without a copy of the judgement, 86 pages of which concerned Mr Dutt.

The actor was likely to be taken to a prison in the western city of Pune later on Monday.

Mr Dutt was among 100 people found guilty by the special Mumbai court, which sentenced 12 of them to death and 20 to life in prison while handing varied jail terms and fines to the rest.—Reuters