A month after his release from Pune’s Yerwada Central jail on a 30 day-long parole, the Maharashtra Government on Monday extended Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt’s parole for another 30 days owing to his wife Manyata’s illness.
Fifty-four-year-old Sanjay, who was granted 30-day parole on December 6 but released from the Yerwada prison on December 20, was to return to the Pune prison on Tuesday in the normal course.
However, the State Government considered positively his application for an extension in parole by another 30 days, owing to his wife’s hospitalisation. Manyata, who was diagonosed with tumour in liver, was admitted to a private hospital in the city suburbs early this month.
Sanjay, who is currently serving the remainder of 42 months’ jail term (in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case) in the Yerwada prison, from incarceration. His release from the prison on December 20, had come seven weeks after he had returned to the Pune-based jail, on after availing 28-day-long furlough.
Sanjay, who had initially been released on a 14-day- furlough on October 1, had succeeded in getting an extension of leave for another 14 days, a grace period that had come in handy for him to spend more time with his family.