New Delhi: The Delhi Police on Friday dropped MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem. The High Court accepted the Delhi Police plea to drop the charges. Delhi Police had said the charges violate Salem's extradition rules. The Portugal court wanted MCOCA removed if Salem's extradition was to stand. "The petition of Delhi Police is allowed. The order dated August 28, 2009 passed by the designated lower court is set aside....
05:19 PM, May 11, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to file an affidavit stating details of proceedings before Portugal's constitutional court where the agency had challenged their high court order quashing the extradition of underworld don Abu Salem. A bench of Justice P Sathasivam and Justice J Chelameswar asked senior counsel Gopal Subramaniam, appearing for the investigating agency, to furnish the details of the proceedings...
01:57 AM, Mar 20, 2012
New Delhi: India has got a breather with the Constitutional Court of Portugal staying the order of its Supreme Court on violation of extradition agreement of underworld don Abu Salem by New Delhi by slapping new charges invoking death penalty. CBI sources said that the Constitutional Court, while admitting India's plea, stayed the order of the Supreme Court of Portugal. India in its plea had also mentioned the recent order...
12:28 PM, Mar 19, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback for India, the government has decided to withdraw the additional charges slapped by the TADA court against underworld don Abu Salem. Sources have told CNN-IBN that the CBI after holding consultations with top-level Home Ministry and MEA officials decided to withdraw the charges. The charges go against the terms and conditions under which the underworld don was extradited from Portugal. Sources said that the CBI...
03:38 PM, Feb 22, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court stayed the TADA proceedings in two cases against alleged gangster Abu Salem in the 1993 Mumbai blasts case in view of Portugal court's order terminating his extradition to India. The court has issued notices to the Central government and the Ministry of External Affairs and wants a response in three weeks. Abu Salem in his application has said that trial, which can lead to death...
12:53 PM, Feb 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court would hear on March 29 a city police plea for dropping stringent MCOCA charges against gangster Abu Salem whose extradition was terminated recently by the Portuguese Supreme Court on the ground of alleged violation of extradition terms by India. Justice Sudarshan Kumar Mishra slated for hearing on March 29 Delhi Police petitions, declining a government counsel's request that the matter be heard as the...
06:53 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: The CBI on Tuesday said that they don't accept Portugal Supreme Court's verdict which recently confirmed the decision to terminate the extradition of underworld don Abu Salem to face trial in various cases in India. The CBI on Tuesday filed its reply in the special TADA court in Mumbai. This reply has been filed after Salem moved the court stating since his extradition had been revoked, no trial...
12:45 PM, Jan 31, 2012
New Delhi: India will approach the Constitutional Court of Portugal challenging the decision of that country's Supreme Court which recently confirmed the decision to terminate the extradition of fugitive underworld don Abu Salem to face trial in various cases here. "Whole extradition process is in jeopardy. The CBI is going before the Constitutional Court of Portugal against the decision of the Supreme Court of that country," Additional Solicitor General (ASG)...
12:29 PM, Jan 25, 2012
New Delhi: A day after Portugal's Supreme Court rejected India's case for Abu Salem's extradition, it now says that the CBI violated terms of the extradition by allowing the gangster to be tried under charges that can lead to a death penalty. While the CBI is looking at legal options to counter the claims, the TADA court in Mumbai will on Wednesday hear Salem's plea to end the ongoing trial...
09:47 AM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: Upholding a Lisbon High Court order, the Portuguese Supreme Court has ruled against the extradition of the notorious gangster Abu Salem. The SC ruled that India has violated the extradition conditions. The Portuguese apex court was hearing a petition filed by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) challenging Lisbon High Court order terminating Salem's extradition. The gangster and an accused in the 1993 Mumbai blasts was brought to...
08:37 PM, Jan 17, 2012
New Delhi: In a setback for India, gangster and 1993 Mumbai serial blasts accused Abu Salem may have to go back to Portugal. The Portugal Supreme Court has rejected India's appeal against a Lisbon lower court order cancelling his extradition to India. Salem has moved TADA court seeking closure of the trial against him in 1993 Mumbai blasts, says continuing trial will be illegal. TADA court in Mumbai will hear...
01:44 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Mumbai: Released in 2007, Ehtesham Shaikh escaped from a Thane session court after an arrest order in an attempt to murder case was passed. Ten years of imprisonment has not been able to reverse the criminal tendencies of 1993 bomb blasts convict Mohmmad Ehtesham Shaikh. After being released in 2007 after finishing his sentence as an undertrial, Shaikh has been booked in at least four cases in Mumbai and Thane,...
01:35 PM, Dec 16, 2011
Mumbai: Senior journalist Jigna Vora, the eleventh accused in the J Dey murder case, is now in the dock owing to her acquaintance with underworld don Abu Salem. According to investigating officials, Vora had befriended the don during his court hearings. While investigating Vora's nexus with underworld don Chhota Rajan, the cops learnt that she had also developed a close rapport with underworld don Abu Salem as she used to...
12:57 PM, Dec 14, 2011
Mumbai: A TADA court has rejected underworld don Abu Salem's application to stop the trial against him in view of the termination of extradition order passed by Portugal's Lisbon High Court in September. While rejecting Salem's application the court said that there was no degree of finality in the termination of extradition order of the Lisbon High Court as the Government of India had challenged that order in the Supreme...
04:24 PM, Nov 08, 2011
New Delhi: A special Mumbai court is likely to give its order on underworld don Abu Salem's application to halt the trials against him in India on Tuesday. This comes after the Lisbon High Court had cancelled Salem's extradition plea in September for having breached extradition terms. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in its reply to the TADA court stated that prosecution against Salem can be stopped only if...
06:56 AM, Nov 08, 2011
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