KATHMANDU, APRIL, 17-Sanjay Dutt, an actor who gets the four more weeks to surender to serve his three and half year jail in connection with the 1993 Mumbai blast case, the Supreme Court decides on Wednesday.

However, the apex court refused to allow his request for six months time to enable him complete his pending film projests. Dutt required to surrender later this week to serve the remaining sentence out of the five year's jail term awarded to him for illegal possession of arms.

 Dutt, 53, who was directed to surrender by April 18, had urged the apex court to allow him to finish shooting of his films which will take at least 196 days and submitted that he should be allowed to surrender after completion of films as over Rs 278 crore has been invested by the producers in seven movies.

The apex court had on March 21 upheld his conviction in the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case which it said was organised by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim and others with the involvement of Pakistan's ISI.

 Dutt, the son of famous Bollywood couple Sunil Dutt and Nargis, was convicted by the TADA court for illegal possession a 9 mm Pistol and a AK-56 rifle which was part of the consignment of weapons and explosives brought to India for the coordinated serial blasts that killed 257 people and injured over 700. (With PTI inputs) from