Not that I was 100% sure but I had a feeling that Sanjay Dutt would be released soon. No, I am not proposing that he didn’t deserve such harsh punishment. In fact I was turning a little optimistic about the legal system in India and its judiciary. However, this optimism was very short lived.
I was catching up with the news items about the melodrama and the hype that happened during Dutt’s trial and his subsequent arrest. Many views, for and against, clouded newspapers, news channels, and even conversation topics in buses, trains, offices, chai tapris, and so on. All through this while, I knew that he would be out in less than a year (I am not saying this because now that he is finally out, but that I am feeling more confident about expressing my feeling). So Sanjay Dutt is finally home through his journey from Arthur road to Yerwada, earning Rs. 204 on the way.
The pretext on which he got bail is still very unclear to me (I am not a law person to understand it thoroughly). But clearly that he had been a well behaved person in last few years certainly seems a foolish reason. Someone else gets imprisonment for a similar crime but his behavior in past few years is not investigated, probably that person is not as rich as Mr. Dutt.
Sanjay Dutt played Munnabhai and earned loads of sympathy and hence shouldn’t have been imprisoned. But this certainly is not a point to considered, it was his professional life. The crime (or the act that led to his arrest) was something in his personal life. And I don’t understand why mix up professional and personal lives (atleast I was told that it is harmful to mix up the two).
What I gather from all this is, if you have a celebrity status and lots of money, then no fundamental rights, constitution or law can bind you. And yes having a sister in politics would work as an added advantage.
I was catching up with the news items about the melodrama and the hype that happened during Dutt’s trial and his subsequent arrest. Many views, for and against, clouded newspapers, news channels, and even conversation topics in buses, trains, offices, chai tapris, and so on. All through this while, I knew that he would be out in less than a year (I am not saying this because now that he is finally out, but that I am feeling more confident about expressing my feeling). So Sanjay Dutt is finally home through his journey from Arthur road to Yerwada, earning Rs. 204 on the way.
The pretext on which he got bail is still very unclear to me (I am not a law person to understand it thoroughly). But clearly that he had been a well behaved person in last few years certainly seems a foolish reason. Someone else gets imprisonment for a similar crime but his behavior in past few years is not investigated, probably that person is not as rich as Mr. Dutt.
Sanjay Dutt played Munnabhai and earned loads of sympathy and hence shouldn’t have been imprisoned. But this certainly is not a point to considered, it was his professional life. The crime (or the act that led to his arrest) was something in his personal life. And I don’t understand why mix up professional and personal lives (atleast I was told that it is harmful to mix up the two).
What I gather from all this is, if you have a celebrity status and lots of money, then no fundamental rights, constitution or law can bind you. And yes having a sister in politics would work as an added advantage.
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