‘Punishment is going to be fulfilled, tell the date of release’, gangster Abu Salem knocked out the Bombay High Court door – Gangster Abu Salem Please in Bombay High Court Claims of Completing His Time in Prison seeks release ntc
Gangster Abu Salem, who is serving life imprisonment in Nashik Central Jail, has moved the Bombay High Court. He appealed to the court to direct the jail administration to determine the release date keeping in mind the entire time spent by him.
Salem claims that by 31 December 2024, he has completed the sentence of 24 years, 9 months and 16 days. This petition by Abu Salem has been filed through his lawyer Farhana Shah. A bench of Justice Sarang Kotwal and Justice SM Modak has fixed March 10 for hearing the case.
Salem came to India from Portugal in 2005
Abu Salem was extradited from Portugal to India on 11 November 2005. After this, in two cases in 2015 and 2017, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, including the 1993 Mumbai serial bomb blast case.
Maximum 25 years sentence will be cut
However, keeping in mind the extradition treaty and sovereign assurance given by the Government of India to Portugal, the Supreme Court ordered in July 2022 that Abu Salem would have to serve a maximum sentence of 25 years. Earlier, Abu Salem had filed a petition in the sessions court demanding clarifying the date of its release, which was rejected.
Salem’s petition states that the special session court did not consider the fact that the sentence of 25 years fixed by the Supreme Court is going to be completed. He argued that in calculating his sentence, ‘Undertial (time spent in jail) should be added to the release (time) after the period of conviction and the release (remission) received due to good conduct’.
According to Salem, he spent time spent in jail
According to Abu Salem, it is the time he spent in jail- from November 2005 to September 2017 (Time spent during the trial)- 11 years, 9 months, 26 days, from February 2015 to December 2024 (Jail during sentence Time spent in)- 9 years, 10 months, 4 days, rebate for good conduct (Reference)- 3 years, 16 days, time spent in jail in Portugal- 1 month.
He says that due to his good conduct, he has been exempted from the jail administration and there is no complaint against him. Therefore, keeping him in jail for more than 25 years will be a violation of the assurance given by the Government of India to Portugal. Now the hearing of this case will be held in Bombay High Court on 10 March.
