Law Minister H R Bhardwaj, on whom Sanjay Dutt is suspected to have carried out a sting operation, on Thursday said the actor had met him a few days ago to seek his blessings. He denied issuing any threat to Dutt as 'we treat him like our family member'.
Dutt, on his part, refrained from speaking further on the issue, a day after claiming that he had conducted the sting operation on 'a union minister'.
Bhardwaj told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday, "I don't think I threatened anybody, much less Sanjay Dutt." He claimed that there was 'nothing acrimonious' between him and Dutt, who is now Samajwadi Party's National General Secretary.
"What is a threat or what a sting means I don't know. You better ask him," Bhardwaj said.
He added that Dutt had "simply come for a cup of tea and sought my blessing as usual.... We (have) treated him like our own family member, and on that day I received him just like a family member."
When Dutt was asked by reporters to speak on the issue today, he said he had not taken anybody's name. "I have already commented on it yesterday... I have already said what I had to say. You ask Amar Singh ji, he is the right person," the actor-turned-politician said when pressed by media persons to speak on the issue.
