Overview
- Maria says he picked Dutt up at Mumbai airport after a Mauritius shoot and questioned him at the Crime Branch.
- He recounts barring phone calls and cigarettes and says he slapped Dutt during interrogation, after which Dutt confessed and begged his father’s forgiveness.
- The trail, according to Maria, began when Hanif Kadawala and Sameer Hingora linked a weapons unloading to Dutt’s home, and he says industry figures later arrived to vouch for the actor.
- Maria claims Dutt kept some of the weapons before returning most to the plotters.
- The remarks come in a December interview revisiting the 1993 probe, with no new legal action reported and Dutt’s 2016 completion of his sentence noted.