New Delhi: The Portuguese government has sought a comment from the External Affairs Ministry regarding newspaper reports that police were torturing gangster Abu Salem, who was extradited from Lisbon in 2005.
The Portuguese government has sent a letter and a newspaper clipping to the ministry and complained that torturing Salem was a "clear violation" of the bilateral extradition treaty.
The ministry sent the letter to CBI, which denied torture and passed it on to Mumbai police for comments. Salem and his companion Monica Bedi were arrested in Lisbon on September 18, 2002. They were extradited after the Indian government assured Portugal that the couple would not be handed out capital punishment.
The CBI had assured Portuguese officials that the couple will not be tortured. Salem was extradited to India to stand trial in eight cases, which include the Mumbai serial blasts, two cases of forgery of passports in Lucknow, three cases of extortion in Delhi and two murder cases in Mumbai.
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