Sanjay Dutt gets six years of Rigorous Imprisonment  

In my blog “Sanjay Dutt – face the Nation” posted a couple of days prior to his conviction by the Tada court I had said that there is no lawyer on this planet who can make a convincing plea for the leniency for Mr. Sanjay Dutt. The only lawyer that he should rely on is the man whose portrait he would surely find hung behind the honourable Judge – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi – Bapu.

Bapu’s counsel to Dutt would have been to face the penance fearlessly and with dignity. Had Mr. Dutt followed this counsel and walked with head held high out of court and into the jail without seeking any bail and spared us of the acrobatics by the legal artistes and the media friends,  the honourable judge may have found him worthy of respect and perhaps lessened his punishment. That’s not the persona of Mr. Sanjay Dutt, he has repeatedly shown a characteristic tendency of getting ‘carried away’ right from his days of drug-addiction to this day of his reckoning before the human court and perhaps its this single most weakness of his personality which has done him in just a day after his 48th Birthday. As Shakespeare said; “Character is destiny”.