[May 22, 2013] Indian actor moved to Pune to serve jail sentence Tweet NEW DELHI, May 22, 2013 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- Indian leading Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has been shifted to Yerwada jail in the western city of Pune to serve jail sentence, a senior police official said Wednesday. The actor, who surrendered last week to serve the remainder of his five-year sentence for his role in the 1993 Mumbai blasts, was moved to Pune from the Arthur Road jail in the country's financial capital. "The 53-year-old actor was moved to Pune's Yerwada jail late Tuesday night, where he would serve 42 months in jail for firearms offences linked to the 1993 Mumbai blasts which killed 257 people and injured over 700 others. He will be given home-made food during his stay in jail," the official said on condition of anonymity. Dutt had served 18 months in jail after a special anti- terrorism court in 2006 convicted him of illegally possessing a rifle and a pistol which he bought from the Mumbai bombers. Though the special court had given him six years' prison term, India's Supreme Court reduced it to five years in March this year. The actor, who was in bail till last month, was to surrender in April, but the apex court allowed him a month more after he filed a plea, saying he needed some more time to finish shootings of a number of ongoing Bollywood films. The son of a Hindu father and a Muslim mother, both late Bollywood actors, Dutt insisted he needed the firearms to defend his family during the Hindu-Muslim communal riots in 1993, which followed the destruction by Hindu fundamentalists of the Babri mosque in the northern town of Ayodhya. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]