Dutt broke his silence a week after the Supreme Court sentenced him to five years in prison for illegal possession of weapons supplied by Mumbaicrime bosses linked to a 1993 terror attack that killed 257 people.
Ujjwala Pawar, the public prosecutor, told the BBC's Zubair Ahmed inMumbai that the death penalty was given as Mane's crime fell into the "rarest of rare" category.