A TADA court has allowed the actor to visit Pune for three days from Oct 22 to offer prayers at Balaji and Dagdu Seth Ganesh temples.
MUMBAI: A TADA court has allowed actor Sanjay Dutt, accused in 1993 bomb blast case, to visit Pune for three days from October 22 to offer prayers at the Balaji and Dagdu Seth Ganesh temples.
Dutt is awaiting a verdict in the 1993 bomb blast case. The court has pronounced judgement on the involvement of 55 accused and the actor's turn is expected after Diwali.
On a plea by his lawyer Farhana Shah, judge PD Kode on Friday allowed the actor to visit the temples.
The court also permitted Dutt to visit Delhi on October 25 and 26 to meet his ailing lawyer Rajendra Singh, who argued the case after the recording of evidence.
However, the court warned him to refrain from making contact with absconding accused in this case and told him to file a detailed programme of his visit to Pune and Delhi with the registrar.
Earlier, the actor had made a similar plea to visit Pune and Delhi but the court had refused him permission as it was delivering its verdict.
Dutt pleaded for the second time that he be allowed to go as the court was closed for Diwali holidays till October 29.
Dutt is charged with possessing an AK-56 rifle and destroying it with the help of friends, Yusuf Nullwala, Ajay Marwah, Kersi Adajania and Rusi Mulla, all of them have been granted bail. He has denied the charges and withdrawn his confession. Two witnesses have turned hostile.
The Central Bureau of Investigation's case is that the co-accused Baba Musa Chohan, Samir Hingora and Hanif Kadawala had gone to Dutt's Bandra residence here at the instance of prime conspirator Anees Ibrahim and delivered weapons to the actor.
Dutt allegedly retained one AK-56 rifle and returned the others, that were delivered at the house of co-accused Zebunissa Kazi.
The CBI alleged that Dutt was shooting in Mauritius when he learnt about his complicity from media reports. He allegedly told his friends to go to his house and destroy the weapon. Later, the rifle was destroyed in a foundry.
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