{"id":8545,"date":"2007-08-08T15:46:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2007\/08\/08\/bollywood-star-launches-appeal-against-sentence\/"},"modified":"2007-08-08T15:46:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T15:46:49","slug":"bollywood-star-launches-appeal-against-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/08\/bollywood-star-launches-appeal-against-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood star launches appeal against sentence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Sanjay Dutt challenges six-year sentence<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"262\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/Image\/ArticleImages\/SanjayDutt%27Sentence%27.jpg\"\/>BOLLYWOOD star Sanjay Dutt who was jailed for six-years for buying weapons used in the 1993 Mumbai bombings is to appeal against his sentence.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 48-year-old is currently being held in a high security prison in the Western Indian city of Pune. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He is the most high-profile name out of the 100 so far convicted in the blasts which killed 257 people. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>He was cleared of conspiracy, but found guilty of illegally possessing a rifle and a pistol. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The actor, who spent 16 months in prison after his arrest in April 1993, was also fined Rs 25,000 by the special court.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;We have filed a petition seeking bail for Sanjay Dutt,&#8221; the actor&#8217;s lawyer Satish Maneshinde said. &#8220;We are also challenging his conviction.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The petition, which said Dutt should be granted bail because he was &#8220;not likely to commit any offence while on bail,&#8221; urged the court to award him some form of punishment other than jail.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The star, famed for his more recent roles in the comedy series Munnabhai, has always protested his innocence against the charges. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Fellow Bollywood stars have also voiced their support for the actor.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Reports have suggested a campaign backed by some of the industry\u2019s stars has been cancelled on the insistence of Dutt\u2019s sister Priya who feared it could jeopardise his case. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanjay Dutt challenges six-year sentence BOLLYWOOD star Sanjay Dutt who was jailed for six-years for buying weapons used in the 1993 Mumbai bombings is to appeal against his sentence. &#13; The 48-year-old is currently being held in a high security prison in the Western Indian city of Pune. &#13; He is the most high-profile name [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}