Salem’s plea for closure rejected
Special Terrorist and Disruptive Activities Act (Tada) court on Tuesday rejected underworld don Abu Salem’s application seeking closure of trial against him in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case. Judge Govind Sanap passed the order after the CBI said that the trail against Salem in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case should continue.
“We have challenged the order of the Portugal Supreme Court, which had cancelled Salem’s extradition, in the Constitutional Court of Portugal. Therefore, Salem’s trial in the 1993 serial bomb blasts case should go on,” the CBI reply said.
The Portugal SC had upheld the cancellation of Salem’s extradition, after which he moved the special Tada court in Mumbai seeking closure of his trial in the 1993 blast case.
Salem was arrested in Lisbon in 2002 along with his girlfriend, actress Monica Bedi, for travelling with fake passports. He was extradited from Portugal in 2005 after the Indian government gave an assurance that he would not be awarded the death penalty or charged with any section of the law, which entailed prison sentence of more than 25 years.
In the second week of January, Portugal’s SC had upheld an order, which cancelled Salem’s extradition for violation of deportation rules by slapping new charges, which attracted death penalty. Following that, Salem had moved the Tada court seeking closure of the trial against him.
Meanwhile, Salem, who is lodged in the Arthur Road Jail, is also facing trials in various other criminal cases.
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