Priya Dutt brings smile on Sanjay's face

Mumbai, Aug 1 (UNI) There was a smile onimprisoned Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt's face today when he saw his sister Congress MP Priya Dutt, who visited him at the Arthur Road Jail in central Mumbai.

Sources said Sanjay's face lit up when he met Priya.

Meanwhile, an inmate who was released this evening, informed that Sanjay did not eat anything during the first night in jail.

''He was offered an apple by an inmate, which he reluctantly accepted but hardly ate. Even today, when he was given lunch, he passed it on to his co-convict Yusuf Nalwalla, who has been awarded five years sentence in the same case,'' the inmate said.

This was, however, denied by jail authorities who said the actor had his lunch with Praveen Mahajan, charged with allegedly murdering his brother and senior BJP leader Pramod Mahajan last year.

The inmate said Sanjay was quite gloomy and spent the entire night crying in his cell.

Sanjay has been lodged in a 90-sq feet room in the ''buddha barrack'' (cell for aged inmates) of the prison.

Meanwhile, jail authorities will submit their reply to the court tomorrow in response to a plea moved by Sanjay, seeking direction to lodge him at the Arthur Road jail.

As a rule, a convict can be shifted to any jail in the State after being sentenced by the Court.

The Arthur Road Jail has several undertrials, who owe allegiance to different underworld gangs including that of Dawood Ibrahim, Chhota Rajan and others.

When yesterday, Dutt was sent to jail, his cell adjoined the one housing mafia don Abu Salem and another blast accused Mustafa Dossa alias Mustafa Majnu. However, considering his high-profile status, the jail authorities are said to have shifted both Salem and Dossa to some other barrack.

UNI