{"id":10450,"date":"2016-02-28T01:44:09","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T01:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shows4.com\/mobile\/?p=10450"},"modified":"2016-02-28T01:44:09","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T01:44:09","slug":"bollywood-star-sanjay-dutt-released-from-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=10450","title":{"rendered":"Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt released from jail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt has been released from jail after serving a sentence for illegal possession of firearms he purchased from men linked to the 1993 Mumbai bombings.<\/p>\n

Dutt\u2019s return to freedom was covered live by a number of Indian news channels as friends and family turned up to shepherd him from Pune\u2019s high-security Yerwada Central jail on Thursday. He kissed the ground outside the prison before being driven to a nearby airport, where he was due to fly home to Mumbai.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am out here because of their [fans\u2019] support. There is no easy walk to freedom, my friends,\u201d he told reporters for the AFP news agency.<\/p>\n

The 56-year-old actor was initially sentenced in 1993 after buying three AK-56 rifles and other weapons from terrorists linked to the bombings which killed 257 people and injured 713. In his defence, he said he needed the weapons to defend his family due to Muslim-Hindu tension in Mumbai.<\/p>\n

The star of 2014 comedy blockbuster PK, 2003\u2019s Munnabhai MBBS and its 2006 sequel has been in and out of courts over the past 23 years. He spent 18 months behind bars in the early 1990s before being bailed, and was jailed once again in 2007 for six years on the same offences, though he did not serve the time until 2013.<\/p>\n