Efforts should be made to enable Dutt get relief, says Dasmunshi

Information and Broadcasting Minister P R Dasmunshi today said all efforts should be made to enable actor Sanjay Dutt, who was given a six-year jail term in the 1993 serial blasts case, get "relief" from the highest judiciary.

Expressing his "deep shock and surprise" on the award of jail term to Dutt, he said in a press release that he believed in the judiciary but felt Sanjay had already suffered enough.

"As a minister, I do not want to question the judiciary, but in a civil society time has come to gauge the parameters for an unintentional fault, for which Sanjay Dutt had already suffered long enough, in first instance," Dasmunshi said.