Reuters Posted online: Friday, November 24, 2006 at 2047 hours IST
Mumbai, November 24: A court is expected to deliver its verdict next week on Sanjay Dutt facing charges of involvement in the 1993 Bombay bombings, the public prosecutor said on Friday.
Sanjay Dutt is charged with conspiracy, illegal possession of arms and trying to destroy evidence in connection with the serial blasts in which 257 people were killed and hundreds wounded, one of India's worst attacks.
"There are five charges against Sanjay Dutt. We have to see what the court says," public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam said.
He said the court was expected to begin giving its verdict on a group of nine people that includes Dutt on Monday, but the order against the actor could come the next day.
Nikam refused to comment on the punishment the actor could get if found guilty.
Dutt, 47, who has earned fame playing gangsters and the anti-hero, has said he is innocent and pleaded not guilty. He was freed on bail after spending more than a year in prison during investigations.
The Mumbai court has so far found 83 people, guilty among the 123 accused in the bombings, blamed on Dawood Ibrahim, believed to now be in Pakistan.
Dutt--whose latest comedy sequel Lage Raho Munnabhai was a superhit--has told television channels that he was worried about his future.
"I'm nervous, I'm apprehensive. I'm going to bow my head and take whatever comes my way. And I will accept whatever the honourable court says to me," he told one channel in a recent interview.
