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Baljeet Parmar, the crime reporter, who first broke Sanjay Dutt's link in the Mumbai 1993 blasts case has completely dissed Rajkumar Hirani's film 'Sanju'which is based on Dutt's life. 

In a long post on Facebook, Parmar has accused 'Hirani and ilk' of making a quick buck with the film. 

Parmar who has not seen the film has stated that he does not wish the film at all."During the last two days, I have received hundreds of messages and requests to react to the film SANJU. First of all, let me confess that I am not a film buff. The last time I went to watch a movie was in 1997."

"Hirani and his ilk are out there to make a quick buck. That is their business and they have every right to do it,"the post further stated.  Parmar who has been a crime reporter for many years also stated that how he has been connected to Bollywood in some way or the other and that the world of cinema did not fascinate him. 

"The use or misuse of drugs, sleeping with women, branding media as an addictive potion, finding faults with system or society, willingly and knowingly Indulge in criminal activity, showing no remorse for your past actions, playing the sympathy card and crying victim, if that is what SANJU is about, I do not regret my decision of staying away from cinema halls," Parmar's post concluded. Read the full post here.

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Parmar, in fact, was the first journalist to find a link between the Mumbai blast case and Sanjay Dutt. 

In an earlier interview to PTI, Parmar had stated that how a month after the blasts, Parmar happen to get a whiff of the news during a routine visit to the Mahim police station. 

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"On April 12, I got the first whiff that Sanjay's name was figuring in police investigations. The Mahim police station was the nerve centre of the investigations into the bomb blasts, and a crack team was burning the midnight oil to unearth the conspiracy. Late that evening, an IPS officer called me to drop a bombshell: “Apke MP ke bete ka naam aa raha hai,” he told me in confidence. (Your MP's son's name is coming up in the investigations)," Parmar was quoted as saying to the news agency.

"It did not take me long to figure out that the MP being referred to was Sunil Dutt. However, I could not confirm it since all the senior officers, including the then commissioner of police Amarjeet Singh Samra, were tight-lipped.

"Late that night, I tried a bluff. I called an IPS officer at Mahim and said: “Suna hai aapne kisi MP ke bete ko uthaya hai (I have heard that you have picked up an MP's son)”.

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" “No, we have not, as he is shooting abroad,” the officer replied. There it was - my big story. It had to be Sanjay Dutt," Parmar had recalled. 

Two days later, Parmar had received a call from Sanjay Dutt himself who wanted to know about the police case against him. 

"I told him that his friends Samir Hingora and Yusuf Nulwala had squealed on him. “Oh, my God,” said Dutt, and disconnected," Parmar said. "Two hours later, he called again, wanting to know what was in store for him if he got caught. I told him that if he surrendered with the weapons, he would be charged under the Arms Act and could get bail. But if the police arrested him and recovered the weapons, he could be charged under Tada — without bail."

A long-drawn legal battle ensued. Dutt was subsequently arrested under TADA and subsequently released one and a half years later. Dutt eventually was charged under the Arms Act case and had to serve 6 years jail term.