Bollywood action hero Sanjay Dutt was today found guilty of involvement in India’s worst terror attack by a Mumbai court.
Judge Pramod Kode gave the decision in the 11-year trial on the series of blasts that ripped through Mumbai, India’s financial and entertainment capital, on March 12, 1993, killing 257 people.
However, Judge Kode acquitted Dutt of charges of conspiracy in the case.
Dutt was found guilty of a lesser charge of possession of arms under India’s arms act which attracts a maximum prison term of three years.
However, he would be eligible to apply for bail on the charge of arms possession.
Judge Kode said: “I have not found that he was a terrorist or was destructive. I do not find him guilty of the sections of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities act.”
The judge said he had examined Dutt’s confession and other evidence that he acquired and possessed arms for defending his family.
Dutt had been charged with illegal possession of three assault rifles, a pistol and some hand grenades in January 1993, the weapons allegedly supplied by another suspect in the case.
Dutt also stands accused of trying to dispose of the weapons nearly three months after the blasts.