Bollywood bad boy Dutt held in 'terrorist' jail cell: Report
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Mrs Manyata (left), the wife of Indian Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt accompanies her husband as he leaves his home to surrender before a court in Mumbai, India, on Thursday, May 16, 2013. Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said on Saturday. -- FILE PHOTO: AP
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said on Saturday.
Dutt, 53, surrendered on Thursday to serve out the remaining three-and-a-half years of a five-year term in a case linked to deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings.
Dutt's lawyer, Rizwan Merchant, has demanded the transfer of the actor whom he said was being kept in the cell once occupied by Mumbai attacks gunman Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, according to the Indian Express daily newspaper.
Pakistani-born Kasab was executed last November, nearly four years after 166 people died in a three-day rampage that traumatised India.
