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For more than a decade, Sanjay Dutt has been going back and forth to court, hoping to clear his name from the violence that erupted in March of 1993, when 13 bombs across Bombay India were detonated, killing 257 people, and injuring over 1400.  Although Sanjay Dutt has been cleared of his possible involvement with the actual bombings, he still faces the possibility of jail, stemming from a weapons charge in which Sanjay was charged with illegally possessing an AK 47 rifle during the intitial investigation.

Dutt's lawyeres told the AFP today that his sentencing for the weapons charge had been postponed, and would most likely take place this Friday, or early next week.  Other individual's who were arrested for the bombings, have presented the arguments that India's Anti-terrorism Court cannot and does not have jurisdiction to make such sentencing decisions.  The Terrorists and Disruptive Activities Act, under which the court was set up, was and has been officially repealed.

The weapons charges which could land Sanjay Dutt in jail stem from the initial investigation to his alleged involvement in the 1993 "Black Friday" terrorist attacks in Bombay India.  A formal investigation led to his acquittal of the more serious charges of terrorism conspiracy in November of 2006, in which judge P.D. Kode stated:  "During my reasoning I have not found Sanjay to be a terrorist."

The terrorist attacks, retaliatory attacks fueled by muslim extremists, were the result of the riots which took place after Hindu radicals were videotaped destroying the Babri Masjid Mosque in Ayodhya India in December of 1992.