Gandhi is with me: Sanjay Dutt said before leaving Yerawada prison

Sanjay Dutt has done charity work running into lakhs in the past so it was a more symbolic gesture when he told the prison authorities he wanted to donate Rs 440 mdash the grand total of his earnings from 35 years of making paper bags and khaki envelopes in jail However prison officials refused to take the money saying they cannot accept donations from convictsAlso Read Sanjay Dutt feels his wife Maanayata suffered more than himFans swarmed around the actor after he was released from jail PicPradeep DhivarWhat he did next was very much like a scene from one of his movies mdash ldquoDutt took the money and kept in his shirt pocket He said lsquoMahatma Gandhi is with mersquo rdquo recalled an official in the prison industry departmentPhotos Sanjay Dutt is back home Bollywood friends and family meet himOne of the many letters Sanjay Dutt wrote as he stayed up on his last night in prisonSources said everybody at the jail will miss the jaadu ki jhappi he would give inmates whenever they were missing their families Even on the night before he left he did forget his fellow prisoners Anxious to get home Dutt didnrsquot sleep a wink the entire night and used the time to write little letters of encouragement and appreciation for fellow inmates and others who had helped himldquoHe had bought chart paper soap shampoo powder pens and a ruler Through the night he was busy scribbling out letters on the chart paper Dutt also wrote about some of his memories from prison He kept asking for the time every 15 minutesrdquo said an officer deputed outside Duttrsquos cellAlso Read Cops beat up photographers covering Sanjay Dutts visit to templeHe added ldquoAround 8 am Dutt handed over around 50 colourful slips of chart paper to Superintendent Pawar in which he had written letters Some of them were for jail officials like constables and sentries others were for those who volunteered to help needy prisonersrdquoOne such person who received a handwritten and signed letter from Dutt was Punebased lawyer Aatish Landge who is a volunteer with the Pune District Legal Service Authority see picldquoDutt had kept his bag packed since Tuesday By 7 am he was ready to go out He had cleaned his room and watered the sapling he had planted near his cell Around 720 am he was summoned by the prison authorities was taken to the administration roomrdquo said the officialDuttrsquos biometrics were checked and he underwent a medical checkupldquoHis weight was down by 10 kg and his waist was five inches smaller Officials checked and gave him his belongings like his blanket plate mug and bucketrdquo said a jail officialWhen Duttrsquos name was announced and he began to exit other prison inmates called out lsquoSanju Babarsquo and clapped mdash this is a prison tradition for when an inmate is set freeAn official asked Dutt what his plans were and the actor said ldquoFor some days I just want to be a father to my children I need to give them justice first In a couple of weeks I will return to visit Dagadusheth Halwai templerdquo