NEW DELHI: Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt, who is in jail for arms possession, is being held in a cell built for militants where he cannot see daylight and wants to be transferred, a report said Saturday.
Dutt, 53, surrendered on Thursday to serve out the remaining three-and-a-half years of a five-year term in a case linked to deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings.
Dutt's lawyer, Rizwan Merchant, has demanded the transfer of the actor whom he said was being kept in the cell once occupied by Ajmal Kasab, according to the Indian Express daily newspaper.
Kasab was executed last November, nearly four years after 166 people died in a three-day rampage that traumatised India.
The steel bunker specially built for Kasab at Mumbai's Arthur Road Jail had no ventilation and the actor could not even tell if it was day or night, the lawyer said.
"He (Dutt) is not a terrorist" and should not be kept in such a cell, the lawyer was quoted as saying.
There was no immediate comment available from the jail.
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