New Delhi: The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday April 18 granted Zaibunissa Kazi and three other 1993 Mumbai serial blasts case convicts 4 weeks time to surrender to complete the jail term awarded to them.

According to reports, the apex court granted the extension to Zaibunissa Kazi, Altaf Ali Sayeed, Anjum Abdul Rajjak and Yusuf Nulwalla in response to their plea seeking more time to surrender on humanitarian grounds.

The apex court passed its order a day after it granted 4 more weeks to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, also convicted in the case for illegal possession of firearms.

The decision in Kazis case was passed by an apex court bench headed by the Chief Justice of India (CJI), which heard her plea around 2.00pm.

The apex court had on Tuesday rejected Zaibunissas plea to extend the time to surrender and had directed her to surrender by the given deadline of April 18.

Zaibunissa, who is a cancer patient, had pleaded before the highest court for an extension on the grounds that her clemency plea is still pending before President Pranab Mukherjee.

Zaibunissa was charged for possessing illegal arms and ammunition and also under the stringent TADA Act. Zaibunisas petition was categorically dismissed by the Supreme Court while Sanjay Dutt was granted four weeks reprieve.

In her reaction to the apex court relief to the actor, Zaibunissas daughter said she wished she or her mother was a celebrity.

It is very important to be a celebrity in this country is all I can say, she said. ‘I have not given up hope, I will continue my fight on humanitarian grounds, she added.

Seventy-one-year-old Zaibunissas sentence of 5 years by the Bombay High court was upheld by SC that had said that all convicts should surrender within 4 weeks of its upholding the Bombay HC judgement.

The former SC judge and Press Council of India chief Markandey Katju had made a representation to the President on behalf of Kazi on March 18 and on behalf of other two on April 10.