Dutt shells out Rs2.25 lakh to fly home

Sanjay Dutt might have earned just Rs210 as wages in the Yerawada prison, but as a free man he bought wings worth Rs2.25 lakh.

This is what he will have to shell out for TajAir’s Falcon 2000 private jet in which he and his close associates flew to the Chhatrapti Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) on Thursday morning.

After being released on interim bail, the high-end luxury jet was the first contact Dutt would have had with the good life that he was used to before going to prison for 24 days.

Dutt is said to have flown along with brother-in-law Kumar Gaurav, lawyer Satish Maneshinde and prison pal and co-convict Yusuf Nulwala.

The eight-seater jet, that took off from Pune’s civil enclave airport at Lohegaon at 7.25am, landed at the CSIA at 7.58, barely two minutes before the eight o’clock restriction for chartered aircraft movements begins at the airport.