The Supreme Court today rejected actor Sanjay Dutt's plea seeking a review of its verdict to award him a five year jail term for his alleged involvement in the 1993 serial blasts case.

The court reportedly said that there was no merit in his plea, reported CNN-IBN.

It also rejected the review pleas filed by six other convicts in the case.

A bench of P Sathasivam and B S Chauhan, which had delivered 21 March verdict, had taken up the review plea in chamber. It also considered similar pleas made by other six convicts in the case.

The six other convicts, who filed review petitions are Yusuf Mohsin Nulwalla, Khalil Ahmed Sayed Ali Nazir, Mohamed Dawood Yusuf Khan, Shaikh Asif Yusuf, Muzammil Umar Kadri and Mohd Ahmed Shaikh.

"A curative petition is the only option but there are no grounds for this petition...He has to surrender," Shivaji Jadhav, a lawyer representing Dutt said.

A day before the deadline for his surrender ended, the Supreme Court had on April 17 granted Dutt, 53, four weeks time to surrender before jail authorities to undergo 42 months remaining sentence in the case.

The apex court had on 21 March upheld his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case which it said was organised by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and others with the involvement of Pakistan’s ISI.

However, the apex court had reduced to five years the six- year jail-term awarded to him by a designated TADA court in 2006, ruling out his release on probation saying the “nature” of his offence was “serious”.

Dutt was convicted by the TADA court for illegal possession a 9 mm Pistol and a AK-56 rifle which was part of the consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for coordinated serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured over 700.

with inputs from PTI

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