‘I slapped Sanjay Dutt, pulled his hair’: IPS officer recalls when Sanjay fell on dad Sunil Dutt’s feet saying ‘galti ho gayi’ after arrest | Bollywood News
Rakesh Maria, the IPS officer who worked on the 1993 Mumbai blast case that involved Sanjay Dutt’s conviction for illegal possession of arms, recently revisited the investigation. Rakesh’s investigation led to the actor serving jail time. In a new interaction with Desi Studios, Rakesh Maria recalled how his probe led him to Sanjay Dutt, and also recalled the emotional moment between Sanjay and his father, veteran star and politician Sunil Dutt, when Sanjay fell at his father’s feet and asked for his father’s forgiveness, allegedly after admitting to his crime. During the interaction, Rakesh recalled that Sanjay Dutt’s name came up in the case through Hanif Kadawala, proprietor of a famous restaurant in Bandra, and Sameer Hingora, then President of the Indian Motion Picture Producers’ Association (IMPPA). “They refused the allegation against them, but they asked to speak to me and the first thing they told me was, ‘Why don’t you arrest big people?’ I asked them, ‘Which big people have I not arrested?’ They tell me, Sanju Baba, I thought what does Sanjay have to …
