Sanjay Dutt deserves freedom: Tusshar Kapoor

Tusshar Kapoor, who worked with Sanjay Dutt in Shootout at Lokhandwala is upset with the apex court verdict against the senior actor in the 1993 blasts case. On Thursday, SC ordered Dutt to serve three-and-a-half years sentence as it reduced to five years the six-year jail term awarded to him by a designated TADA court in 2006.

The 53-year-old has already spent 18 months behind the bars. "I feel saddened about what happened. I don't know what is right and wrong as we don't know the exact information legally. Mr Dutt has strength. His family has faced a lot of things but he has always come out of it and I hope it happens this time as well. He has a survival instinct," Tusshar told reporters at an event.

"I am not in a position (to comment on law) and don't know the law. I feel bad...everyone deserves freedom and he has that right too," he said reacting to the sentence. Dutt was convicted by the TADA court for illegal possession of a AK- 56 rifle and a 9 mm pistol, which was part of the consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for the co-ordinated Mumbai serial blasts on March 12, 1993.

PTI