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SUNDAY TIMES OF INDIA, PUNE 2 TIMES CITY DECEMBER 8, 2013 Prepare slum-free Furore over Dutt’s parole plea loses city plan, PMC told steam as his wife has liver tumour Graphic: Sandeep Salunke SLUMS FAMILIES % OF POPULATION Legal Experts Pune’s Slum PRISON RULES ON TEMPORARY RELEASE File photo In Pune Rehab Project 564 2,10,000 43 Say Parole Parole and furlough pleas of three convicts in the 1993 Pimpri Plea Decided serial bomb blasts' case Fails To Meet Chinchwad 36,126 15 SRA Target 69 On Merit SANJAY DUTT (54) 1.73 cr 1.37 cr Crime | Possession of AK-56 rifle Swati Deshpande TIMES NEWS NETWORK houses have slum households before the March 12, 1993, blasts & Malathy Iyer TNN Pune: The Centre has asked been categorized have been Sentence | Convicted under the Arms civic bodies to draw up a as slums in India identifi ed he initial outrage over Act for illegal possession of the AK-56 ‘Slum Free City Plan of Ac- 19 cities actor Sanjay Dutt’s rifle before the blasts; acquitted under tion’ if they want to achieve second 30-day leave Tada charges. Sentenced to five years’ with a million T the tag of a slum-free plea from jail within six rigorous imprisonment plus population city. months of his imprison- Term served in prison so far | 25 months Preparing the plan SLUM have more 25% ment ebbed a little on Satur- would require fresh sur- of the total day when a senior doctor Granted furlough on October 2 for veys of slums, geo- households claimed the actor’s wife, two weeks initially. It was extended graphical informa- FACTS living in slums Manyata, has been diagnos- later by two weeks to October 29. tion system (GIS) ed with liver tumour. Returned to Pune prison on October 30 mapping of the local- Speaking on Manyata’s ities and their analy- health earlier in the day, Dr Sought a month-long parole on sis which would help Ajay Chaughule from Glob- December 6 on the grounds that his formulation of curative al Hospital in Parel, said, wife was unwell. Not released after and preventive strategies. “The tumour was found dur- Dutt failed to provide surety The Centre’s directive ing an ultrasound scan al- DIFFERENCE BETWEEN comes on the backdrop most three weeks ago. ZAIBUNISA KAZI (70) YUSUF NULLWALLA (MID-50s) of the Pune Municipal More tests are needed.” He FURLOUGH & PAROLE Corporation’s (PMC) failure said the tumour was detect- Not entitled to furlough since Not entitled to furlough since he is a Tada Furlough | It is leave granted under jail to complete rehabilitation Most slums located in ed in the course of her treat- she is a Tada convict. Parole convict. Parole plea was rejected around schemes under the Slum ment for heart problems. rules to convicts to ensure ties with cities of these six states: SLUM REHABILITATION plea was rejected in October. November after negative report from the Rehabilitation Authority The doctor had issued her a family and society remain intact. Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, AUTHORITY (SRA) Bandra police said she might police that he may abscond and his (SRA). The PMC planned certificate to this effect, No specific reason is to be cited abscond or create problems brother is incapable of giving surety to complete about 40,000 Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, STATUS IN PUNE which was submitted to jail Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Parole | It has to be sought for a units under SRA to rehabil- ä Schemes approved till authorities. Pradesh particular reason. Local police have itate same number of slum October, 2013: 49 Sources close to the Dutt MANYATA'S HEALTH was positive for heart blockages. She families, but it has succeed- family, though, were cate- to give a report on the convict. Prison refused to undergo further tests but ed in building just 2,640 92.7% of the total ä Completed schemes: 20 gorical the tumour isn’t authorities must apply their mind to anyata, actor Sanjay Dutt's wife, started on a course of statins and blood units so far. slums are occupied ä Schemes stayed by state: 5 cancerous. Manyata is like- each case while deciding on the plea Mwas detected with a heart problem thinners,” said Dr Ajay Chaughule. “The Centre wants to re- ä Schemes stayed by Court: 2 ly to consult Dr Mohammed and usually take good conduct of soon after she delivered the couple’s A month ago, she again complained view slum rehab schemes Rela, who is one of the fore- convict into account. twins almost three years ago. She used of severe palpitations and underwent before the launch of 7. 3 % are vacant ä Families benefi ted: 2,640 most liver surgeons in the A prisoner may be released on parole to suffer from palpitations and chest blood tests and an ultrasound scan JNNURM-II. Cities that ben- country. (Source: Slum Rehabilitation for a maximum of 30 days at a time pain. “She underwent a stress test that that showed a tumour in the liver efitted from the JNNURM 84.9% Census Authority, Maharashtra Dutt had stated his wife’s funds will have to draw up a ill-health as the reason for houses are used for Government ) plan for the slum-free city seeking parole so soon after ing sharp reactions over since been repealed. scond” and be “a threat residence/residence- The tumour was programme. Based on the returning from a month- Dutt’s parole. found during an Legal experts said each to witness and cause law or- plan, the Centre wants cities cum-other use The Centre long furlough. Dutt was kept On Saturday, state home plea for parole must be con- der problem”. ultrasound scan almost to take a comprehensive 58.4% residential wants to review in Yerawada Jail in Pune minister R R Patil said he sidered on its merit. “No Kazi’s appeal against her cluster-development ap- since May after the Supreme would inquire into the rea- three weeks ago. More tests plea can be rejected without rejection of parole is now census houses are in proach for slum rehabilita- slum rehabilitation Court held his conviction in sons for actor Dutt’s second are needed applying one’s mind,” said under appeal before author- good condition tion,” said a senior state offi- schemes before it the 1993 serial blasts. month-long leave. He also Dr Ajay Chaughule | advocate Pranav Badheka. ities in Mantralaya. Her cial. launches JNNURM-II. Even though it’s not un- met Kazi’s daughter, Sha- GLOBAL HOSPITAL Meanwhile, advocate daughter Shagufta told He added that the PMC 37.5% are livable Cities that benefitted usual to extend parole, gufta, along with former Farhana Shah has filed TOI, “I am happy Dutt is out has sought the state’s assist- Dutt’s release created an up- vice-chairperson of state by prison authorities. Dutt, a petition in Bombay high on parole to be with his fam- ance to replicate the Mum- from the JNNURM roar because his co-con- minority commission, who was then abroad, had court against the rejection ily in need, but the author- bai Metropolitan Region De- 4% are in dilapidated funds will have to victs, which includes a 70- Abraham Mathai. Patil said asked him to pick up a black of parole for Mujib Parkar. ities need to consider every velopment Authority's state draw up a plan for year-old Zaibunisa Kazi, he would make a statement bag containing an AK-56 and He was sentenced to five application on merit. Is my (MMRDA) rental housing were rejected on the during the assembly’s win- ammunition and destroy years under TADA for mother who wants to visit policy in Pune once the Pune 70.2% Slum slum-free city grounds that they would ab- ter session that begins on them. Like Dutt, purchasing gunny bags in her ailing mother an Alz- Metropolitan Region Devel- households are owned, programme. Based on scond. Monday. Nullwalla, too, got five which RDX was later stored. heimer's patient in her 90s opment Authority (PMRDA) while the rest are the plan, they would Manyata was also spot- Incidentally, another years’ rigorous imprison- His parole was rejected likely to abscond now, when is formed. mostly rented be asked to undertake ted at several social events convict, Yusuf Nullwalla, ment but was convicted in July because the police she never misused her bail Under the slum preven- over the past few days, evok- was recently denied parole under TADA, which has said Parkar would “ab- all these years?” tion programme, the (Source: Union Minister for Housing and cluster development Urban Poverty Alleviation report on ‘Housing MMRDA has decided to take Stock, Amenities and Assets in Slums’, based up construction of 5 lakh on House Listing and House Census) A senior state official houses in the Mumbai Met- Actor still in jail for not furnishing surety ropolitan Region. These ernment continues to sit on work in Pune city,” said a PMC houses would be built in five the PMRDA proposal and official. Asseem Shaikh TNN got the contents of the certificate ver- role to a convict up to 30 days, which years and 50,000 of them the housing scheme in Pune “It is a fact that the The divisional commission- ified from the Mumbai police may extend up to 60 days would be developed over the remains a non-starter. PMC has failed to implement Pune: Actor Sanjay Dutt was not re- er has the discretionary before ordering his release on pa- if the conduct of the convict is good, next year.