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Jail opposes home food for Sanjay Dutt

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MUMBAI: Yerawada jail authorities on Monday moved a designated Tada court here against allowing home food to actor Sanjay Dutt citing the prison manual which does not provide for extension of such a facility.

Dutt, who is lodged in Yerawada central prison in Pune, was allowed to have home food and medicines by the Tada court when he surrendered on May 16 to serve his remaining 42 months sentence following his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

The application was filed on Monday and would be heard in due course, according to jailor Yogesh Desai. The 53-year-old actor was first taken to Arthur Road jail after his surrender and later shifted to Yerawada prison.

The jail authorities are yet to take a decision on the mandatory manual work the actor is supposed to undertake as an inmate. He is currently being kept in a separate cell for security reasons.

The last time when he was in Yerawada, Dutt was given the work of knitting cane chairs. He was paid Rs 12.50 per day meant for an unskilled worker.

The actor was convicted for illegally possessing a 9mm pistol and an AK-56 rifle, a part of the consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for the serial blasts that killed 257 people in March 1993. (PTI)

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