New Delhi:Underworld don Abu Salem, who was brought to the Capital from Mumbai in connection with a nine-year-old extortion case, has been remanded to four days police custody.
News agency, PTI quoted Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Seema Maini, as saying that since Salem’s connection with the co-accused Romesh Sharma and other accomplices is yet to be delved into and sustained interrogation is required to unearth the criminal conspiracy and to lead the investigation to a logical conclusion, therefore he has been remanded to police custody.
Allowing the Special Cell's request, Maini granted custodial interrogation of Salem to carry out probe in an nine-year-old extortion case.
According to the police, Salem had entered into a criminal conspiracy with Sharma to extort Rs 50 lakh from one Vinay Singh, the owner of a private company in South Delhi.
The police also claimed to have intercepted the conversation between Salem and Sharma on October 20, 1998, after taking requisite permission from concerned authorities.
A case was registered with the Hauz Khas Police Station in New Delhi against both the accused under sections 384 (extortion) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
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