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New Delhi: Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt is expected to walk out from Pune’s Yedawada Jail on Wednesday after the Supreme Court granted him bail in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case on Tuesday.

Dutt will be released only after the jail authorities receive the Tada court order in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case.

The Supreme Court order has to be routed through the special TADA court in Mumbai, as was done earlier when he was granted interim bail.

The process could spill over to evening, by which time Dutt's lawyer is expected to come to the jail with the necessary legal document.

The actor had been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment by the TADA court in the case.

A Bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan took up Dutt's plea along with petitions of other convicts Yusuf Mohsin Nallawala, Samir Hingora and Zaibunisa Anwar Qazi.

Granting him bail, the apex court said Dutt will have to furnish a bond subject to satisfaction of the TADA judge and his passport will remain deposited.

Dutt was earlier granted interim bail on condition that he would surrender, after getting a copy of the TADA court judgment.

Dutt, who got a copy of the judgment on October 22, complied with the bail condition and surrendered before being taken to Yerwada jail in Pune.