NEW DELHI: The Indian Supreme Court on Wednesday gave Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt a month's time before going back to jail for possessing arms supplied by plotters of the deadly 1993 Mumbai blasts.

Dutt was sentenced to five years in jail for possession of illegal weapons in the long-running case linked to the 1993 Mumbai bombings. He will have to serve over three years of the sentence as he has already spent 18 months in prison.

Earlier on Monday, Dutt had pleaded before the court to keep the punishment in abeyance until the governor decided on a pardon. Moreover, Dutt had appealed that he wanted some time to complete his shoots before serving the jail term.

The court had previously said that Dutt should be jailed by April 18. In an emotional press conference last month, the actor had said he would not appeal against his sentence.