Dutt! Dutt!! Dutt!!! But...

• Sanjay Dutt gets Dussehra reprieve. - NDTV.com.
• 4340-page judgement stuns Dutt’s lawyers. - Daily News & Analysis.
• Manyata visits actor Sanjay Dutt at Hotel ITC Grand Central.
• Tin walls, wary cops greet actor at Yerwada. - Hindustan Times.
• Dutt undergoes medical check-up at Yerawada jail. - Earthtimes, UK.
• Dutt wants to be home for Diwali. - Hindustan Times.
• Daunting paperwork dims Sanjay’s Diwali hope. - Telegraph.

The name that one mostly gets to hear in connection with 93-Bombay-Serial-Blasts is Sanjay Dutt. As if the whole 93-Bombay-Serial-Blasts was conducted by him. As if he killed 257 people. No other name is as prominent. The whole attention has narrowed down to Dutt. Has anyone read what is the present status of Memons and Turks and Tarranis and Shaikhs and Ghansars... Most probably one hasn't. At least I haven't. But I have read about, Dutt being awarded harsh judgement, Dutt in barrack number 3 making chairs, Dutt applying for bail, Cong. says spare Dutt, BJP says bare Dutt, Ujjwal Nikam dares Dutt, Pune jail scares Dutt, her sister holding talks with MPs, judges say no special treatment to his plea, Dutt shaking hands with cops, Dutt not received copy of sentence, Dutt not received copy of sentence (Repeated intentionally!), Dutt received copy of sentence, Manyata meeting Dutt, Dutt hugging sisters, Dutt stepping into van, Cops speeding towards Pune to evade media. And still counting... And all else is lost in shadow of Dutt. Maybe he is being used now. Used now to hide everything else. Else! Like?

Like has justice really been done? They say "Justice delayed is justice denied". And here justice comes after 14 years. I know that this justice had to be done through the mountains of documentation, through sheer bulk of facts and contradictions, through lapses in human memory, through over 3000 witnesses, listening to their version and yet conclude with one single story . Poor Justice P Kode must have faced all this. But then why this mammoth task was entrusted to one person? Why not "divide-and-conquer"?

Like What happened to Mumbai riots case. 93-Bombay-Serial-Blasts took place because of the riots that preceded. It claimed 900 people. (State figures, the actual toll is closer to 1,500 according to activists.) Justice Srikrishna Commission report included names of the likes of Bal Thackerey, Murli Manohar Joshi, Gopinath Munde etc, not to mention Hindu mobs and Hindu police officers. Aren't riots too not an act of terror? But Justice Srikrishna Commission was disbanded then reconstituted then report has been dumped with arguments that it is not binding on the goverment. Many indicted policemen were promoted by the government and indicted politicians continue to hold high political office even today.

Like why the trial of underworld don Abu Salem and kingpin in the blasts case should be separate. Why could we not get hold of Dawood? Even when at certain times his whereabouts were well known. Is it not failure of our foreign relations and extradition treaties?

Like Rubina Memon. Rubina Memon is the wife of Tiger Memon's older brother Sulaiman. She has been given rigorous imprisonment for life. She has been found guilty under TADA because it was the van registered under her name that was used to carry arms and ammunition for the blasts. But is there any proof that Rubina actually bought the car which was registered in her name? Or is it that the car was bought by her husband and registered on her name to save taxes? Did she actually know what her husband’s brothers were planning to do? Or is she a typical uneducated mute muslim woman whose only job is to take good care of the men folks, and do what they want her to do?

Like Zebunissa Qazi. Zebunissa Qazi is 60. She has been sentenced to five years rigorous imprisonment. Her crime? The weapons, used in the blast, were merely kept at her residence, although they were possessed by those who brought them there. She says some boys handed her a bag and told her to keep it in her garage. She did not know what was inside the bag. Anything to prove that she was part of the criminal conspiracy? Nothing.

However, All that we get to hear is no Memons, no Thackereys, no Rubinas, no Zebunissas. Only Dutt! Dutt!! Dutt!!!