1993 blast case: After Dutt, 3 convicts get 1 month reprieve

, April 18: After

was granted 4 weeks more to surrender in connection withthe 1993 blasts 3 other convicts too have been granted the same extension by the

.

On Thursday, the SC granted the extention to Yusuf Nalwala, Altyaf and Esa Memon.

Dutt and the other 3 accused were to surrender today ( April 18).

Sanjay Dutt has requested the court to grant him more time to surrender in order to complete his films as huge money has been invested by the producers in these projects. Dutt, 53, was sentenced to five years in jail by the apex court March 21 for illegal arms possession during the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts. He was told to surrender by April 18. The actor has already undergone one-and-half years of imprisonment and, according to the apex court order, he has to undergo the remaining three-and half years of the sentence.

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