Sanjay Dutt emerges from jail, undergoes medical check-up

Sanjay DuttBollywood actor Sanjay Dutt emerged from the Yerawada Central Jail for the first time in more than two months for a visit to a hospital, official sources said Saturday.

Dutt was taken under tight security to the Sassoon Hospital, where he underwent a full general medical check-up by a team of four doctors.

“The medical examination of Dutt was a general check-up. He is suffering from various ailments. All check-ups are done regularly at the jail hospital, but one check-up was left out, which was conducted on Saturday as per the TADA court order,” said jail superintendent Yogesh Desai.

“Dutt has hypertension and our doctors went to the jail to check his blood pressure. It was a routine follow-up. Otherwise he is perfectly ok,” said D G Kulkarni, medical superintendent of the hospital.Unofficial reports claimed that Dutt had been ailing, but jail authorities and hospital officials remained tight-lipped about the details of the actor’s medical check-up, which lasted around three hours.

Dutt returned to prison after the hospital visit.

This was the first time Sanjay Dutt was emerging from the famous Yerawada Central Jail in over two months after his surrender before a Mumbai Special Court May 16 to serve the remainder of his sentence after his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case.

On May 22, he was shifted out of Mumbai’s Arthur Road Central Jail and whisked off to Yerawada Central Jail to serve the sentence that remained.

During his hearing before the Special TADA Court, Dutt had sought home-cooked food, medicines and other facilities, which he was permitted for a month.

However, the Yerawada jail authorities objected to these privileges, citing the jail manual, since Dutt was serving time in prison as a convict, and was not an undertrial.

Subsequently, Dutt was taught to make paper bags, a tedious indoor chore, that security personnel thought would be best for his safety. He is paid around Rs.25 each day for the bags.

IANS

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