MUMBAI: Actor Sanjay Dutt has filed an application for a 30-day extension of his parole. He sought the extension after hospital reports confirmed that his wife Manyata has tuberculosis.

Dutt had filed a plea for parole extension three days ago, but submitted a letter, along with Manyata’s health report, on Friday. The divisional commissioner of Pune will decide on the parole extension plea.

The 54-year-old actor, who is serving a five-year prison term under the Arms Act in the 1993 blasts case, was released on a month-long parole on December 21, 2013. His parole is not counted as part of his prison term. It is a leave granted by prison authorities for a particular reason, including health concerns of a family member. Dutt’s parole ends on January 21, unless extended.

Manyata (37) was admitted to a hospital in Parel on Tuesday after she complained of breathlessness and discomfort in the lungs. Doctors operated upon her the next day and removed water from the lungs. She will be kept under observation for a few more days, said sources in the hospital. But sources close to the family said that even after the operation, Manyata is complaining of breathlessness.

On December 6, 2013, Pune divisional commissioner Prabhakar Deshmukh had granted parole to Dutt after the Mumbai police and the state prisons department, Pune, recommended his release. The parole order was communicated to the jail the following day, but the actor took almost two weeks to furnish a surety of Rs 5,000 to secure his release. He had sought parole on the grounds that his wife was unwell and needed care. His parole order had come barely a month after he completed a month-long furlough and returned to Pune’s Yerawada jail on October 30, 2013.

Soon after his parole order, a city doctor quelled doubts over the frequency of his release from prison. The doctor said that a tumour had been detected in Manyata’s liver.