Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt will be leaving prison with just Rs 450 of his salary that he earned during his jail term, reports a leading English daily.

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Dutt worked as a semi-skilled worker in Yerawada Central Prison in Pune making paper bags and earned a salary of Rs 38,000 but will take home just Rs 450 as he has spent the rest of the amount on daily use items. Dutt was receiving the salary of a semi-skilled worker which is set at Rs 50 per day.  "We have counted the number of days the actor has spent in the jail after finalising his fixed date of release (FDR), after which we then calculated his salary at the rate of Rs 35, per day, which was enhanced to Rs 50 with effect from September 1, 2015," sources said to the daily.

The prison management has excluded 256 days of Dutt's leave on parole and furlough which was granted to him by the Pune divisional commissioner and deputy inspector general (western region) of the prisons department on numerous occasions since 2013 while calculating his salary, officials said. They have also not taken into account the 18 months (548 days) that the 'Munnabhai MBBS' actor spent in jail as an undertrial.

The fifty-six-year-old actor is serving a five-year rigorous jail sentence after being convicted of  possessing and destroying a prohibited weapon, an AK-56 rifle, just before the 1993 Mumbai blasts which killed 257 people.

He was convicted under the Arms Act. Dutt was tried along with 122 others by a special court in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.