Bollywood's Sanjay Dutt sent back to jail One of India's longest-running legal cases took a further twist on Thursday, as high-profile Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to return to jail for five more years for his role in connection with a series of bombings in Mumbai in 1993. A widely popular star known for his tempestuous private life and tough-guy onscreen persona, Mr Dutt had previously spent 18 months in prison relating to charges of supplying weapons to a criminal group who murdered more than 257 people in the attack. India's supreme court rejected the film star's final appeal in the two decade-long case, which has been followed avidly by India's media, and ordered Mr Dutt to return to custody in four weeks" time. The 1993 attacks, among the most deadly in Indian history, were allegedly ordered by Dawood Ibrahim, a Muslim criminal figure, in retaliation for the destruction of the Babri mosque by Hindu fundamentalists the previous year. Mr Dutt was the easily the most high profile of the more than one hundred people arrested in connection with the bombings, charged with the illegal possession of an automatic rifle and a pistol. During his trial the actor claimed the weapons were bought for his own protection and that of his family, during an extended period of rioting in Mumbai which followed the mosque's destruction. The star was eventually found guilty in 2006, only to be swiftly released on bail in 2007, and since then has resurrected his troubled career, starring in a number of successful Bollywood films. Mr Dutt's latest, the political thriller Zila Ghaziabad, opened just last month, and the fact that Indian film stars tend to make numerous films simultaneously means his return to jail is likely to affect a number of forthcoming projects. The country's tight-knit film establishment, which has generally rallied around the 53-year-old star throughout his trial, reacted with dismay at the news. "I am truly shattered to hear of Sanju's sentence . . . the nicest guy I have known," Karan Johar, a high profile Bollywood director, wrote on Twitter. My heart goes out to him. On Thursday the supreme court also confirmed a death sentence previously handed out to Yakub Abdul Memon, one of the most senior figures involved in the 1993 attacks. Speaking on Indian television, Mr Dutt's lawyer said he believed his client would have to serve only about three-and-a-half years of his sentence, given his previous spell in prison awaiting trial.