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Bollywood Star Sanjay Dutt Released on Bail
Bollywood movie star Sanjay Dutt was released on bail Monday after India’s Supreme Court determined that a technicality involving a copy of the sentence had not been issued to the 48-year-old.
While Dutt was granted bail, he will have to return to prison to finish out his six year stint after he is provided with a copy of the sentence. Dutt was convicted of illegal possession of firearms last November and was sentenced on July 31.
The firearms were tied to the Mumbai bombings in 1993 that killed 257 people.
Dutt escaped the more serious charges of terrorism when his case went to trial. There were more than 80 people tried in the bombings that were believed to be part of retaliation for the destruction of a mosque in northern India by Hindu nationalists in 1992.
