By IANS
New Delhi : A city court Friday sent extradited mobster Abu Salem to judicial custody for a day when his police remand for probing his role in a case of extortion at the behest of fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim ended.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Seema Maini turned down a plea by the police to interrogate him for yet another case of extortion.
Maini said the case against Salem was registered in a police station under the administrative jurisdiction of a different court at Patiala House premises. Maini's court is located at the Tis Hajari court complex in north Delhi.
Maini said only the court with appropriate jurisdiction was empowered to remand him in police custody for his role in trying to extort Rs.50 million from south Delhi businessman Ashok Gupta in 2002.
Accordingly, the police are likely to approach the metropolitan magistrate's court in Patiala House complex Saturday to seek police custody of Salem related to alleged extortion of Gupta.
Salem, who is facing trial in Mumbai for allegedly masterminding and funding the March 1993 serial bombing of the metropolis, was brought to the capital May 21.
A day later, Maini had remanded him in seven-day police custody for his interrogation on his role in allegedly trying to extort Rs.10 million from Rajat Nagrath, another south Delhi businessman. Nagrath is the owner of Allied Communications, a business firm at East of Kailash.
After his police remand in this case ended, Salem was again sent to four-day police custody for his role in extorting another businessman Vinay Singh at the instance of Dawood's Delhi-based alleged front man Romesh Sharma.