New Delhi: Following is the timeline of how Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt became involved with the case relating to 1993 Mumbai serial blasts, leading to today's apex court verdict sentencing him to 5 years imprisonment:
March 12, 1993: Mumbai was rocked by 12 bomb blasts between 1:33 pm to 3:40 pm which killed around 257 people and injured another 713. Property worth Rs. 27 crore was damaged in the blasts.
April 1993: Sameer Hingora and Hanif Kadawala arrested a month after serial blasts rock Mumbai on March 12, 1993. They tell police about film star Sanjay Dutt's possessing AK-56 rifles.