Mumbai: On Thursday, Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt walked out of the Yerawada Central Jail as a free man. He was released from the prison after being granted remission in his five-year sentence. The actor visited Siddhivinayak Temple and his mother Nargis Dutt’s grave and then met the press. At the meet, he said, “I miss my father today. If he would have been alive, he would have been the happiest person. His only fight was to see his son free. Today, I can say dad I am free. I love you.”
He further added, “For 23 years I wanted to be a free man. I wanted to taste freedom and today, finally the day has come that I walked out of the jail as a free man. But it’s not sinking in me, I think I am on a payroll leave or something, but I know I will come to terms with it.”
Sanjay Dutt said, “I am proud to be an Indian, that is why I kissed the earth and saluted the tricolour when I came out.”
At the end of the meet, he requested the media to not address him as a terrorist. He added, “My biggest relief was when court said ‘you are not a terrorist’. I would request to the press, I am convicted in the arms act, not in the bomb blasts case. Please don’t portray me as that.”
