Priya Dutt and Maanyata Dutt pay a visit to Sanjay Dutt in jail

Actor Sanjay Dutt whose conviction in 1993 Mumbai blasts was upheld by the Supreme Court had surrendered on May 16.At present the actor is being held in Arthur Road jail in Mumbai,here he is being kept in the Anda cell which previously housed Ajmal Kasab. Concerned about his health Sanjay has been given certain allowances like home cooked food .On May 18 his sister Priya Dutt and wife Maanyata paid a visit to him.

As per sources,Sanjay Dutt spent a restless night and was reportedly feeling suffocated in the anda cell,therefore his lawyer made an appeal to TADA court to shift him”The anda (egg-shaped) cell does not have enough light and Sanjay Dutt felt suffocated due to insufficient ventilation,” his lawyer Rizwan Merchant told the TADA court.he egg-shaped cell was generally used to keep the hardened criminals or those arrested on terrorism-related charges. Sanjay Dutt had been sentenced under Arms Act and should be kept in barracks with other prisoners instead of segregating him, advocate Merchant said.

Sanjay Dutt has already spent 18 months in jail after his arrest in April 1993, and has three-and-half years to serve. The Supreme Court had reduced his sentence from six years to five years