Sanjay Dutt convicted by TADA court under Arms act but not for the Mumbai Blasts case of 1993. He faces maximum five years in prison. Judge Kode said "During my reasoning, I have not found him (Sanjay) to be a terrorist". He then went to announce his judgement, that the court had found Sanjay Dutt guilty primarily on three accounts:
his own confession statement; the confession statement of his co-accused; and recovery of weapons from his
residence as evidence.
Sanjay, who spent about 16 months in prison after his arrest in April 1993, was found guilty under Sections 3 and 7 read with Section 25 of the Indian Arms Act. Under Section 3, he was found guilty of possessing a 9mm pistol and under Section 7 for possessing an AK-56 rifle, a prohibited weapon.
Under these charges, he faces a maximum of five years in prison. The court, on Sanjay's plea, extended his bail and asked him to surrender on December 19. The court also let off Sanjay's friends Yusuf Nallawalla and Kersi Adajenia for terrorism charges but found them guilty under the Arms Act and for destroying evidence.
Dutt received three AK-56 rifles, its ammunition, 9 mm pistol, its cartridges and hand grenades, which were part of the consignment smuggled by Tiger Memon to set off a series of blasts in Mumbai on March 12, 1993.
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