On rigorous interrogation, Sanjay Dutt requested Rakesh Maria to speak in private. After which Sanjay Dutt cried like a child in front of Rakesh Maria and accepted the whole thing which his colleagues had said. Not only this, he also confessed that the weapons were kept at his own house.
IPS Rakesh Maria, who was the former commissioner of Mumbai Police, is counted among the capable police officers. It was Rakesh Maria who had brought the Mumbai blasts case and 26/11 case related to film actor Sanjay Dutt to the end. In the Mumbai blasts case, Rakesh Maria himself had arrested film actor Sanjay Dutt and also got him confessed. Along with this, he was also taken inside the bars.
IPS Rakesh Maria has mentioned this in his book Let Me Say It Now. According to the book, Rakesh Maria got the command of investigation after the 1993 blasts. The police had caught some people involved in this case. Sanjay Dutt’s name came to the fore only during interrogation of the arrested people. After the name surfaced, Rakesh Maria, the then DCP of Mumbai Police, was given the task of arresting and interrogating Sanjay Dutt.
Rakesh Maria reached Sahara Airport on 19 April 1993 with the order of the then Police Commissioner Amarjit Singh Samra. Where Sanjay Dutt’s flight was returning from Mauritius to Mumbai. Rakesh Maria reached in front of Sanjay Dutt as soon as he got off the flight. Rakesh Maria, introducing himself to him, asked him to give his boarding pass and passport. Sanjay Dutt was speechless on hearing this and handed over the passport and boarding pass without saying anything.
After this, Rakesh Maria took Sanjay Dutt along with two soldiers in his ambassador car and took him to the Mumbai Police Crime Branch office. During this, Sanjay Dutt kept asking the soldiers again and again where he was being taken. He was also repeatedly pleading to meet his family members. But the soldiers sitting in the car did not give any answer to his words. After this Sanjay Dutt was made to sit in a special room where he was ordered to keep the door open to use the toilet. Also smoking was banned there.
The day Sanjay Dutt was arrested, he was kept in the crime branch office till that night. The next day, at around 8 am, Rakesh Maria along with some police officers came to interrogate Sanjay Dutt. Rakesh Maria asks Sanjay Dutt to narrate the full story of the bomb blast. But Sanjay Dutt kept saying again and again that Sir I have not done anything. During this, Sanjay Dutt broke down completely and started crying. Rakesh Maria gave a slap to Sanjay Dutt for not answering the question again and again.
After this, on being asked strictly, Sanjay Dutt requested to talk to Rakesh Maria in private. After which Sanjay Dutt cried like a child in front of Rakesh Maria and accepted the whole thing which his colleagues had said. Not only this, he also confessed that the weapons were kept at his own house and he destroyed it. After this, Rakesh Maria also arrested his associates who supported Sanjay Dutt in destroying the weapon. After that Sanjay Dutt was produced in the court and sent to police custody.
During interrogation, Sanjay Dutt requested IPS Rakesh Maria that please do not tell anything about this to his father Sunil Dutt. But Rakesh Maria categorically refused that I cannot hide anything. I have to tell the truth. After this Rakesh Maria confronted Sanjay Dutt with his father and then MP Sunil Dutt. On seeing his father, Sanjay Dutt started crying bitterly and holding his father’s feet, he started saying that forgive me. I made a mistake. I have made a mistake and have accepted it.