By IANS
New Delhi : A city court Saturday remanded extradited mobster Abu Salem to seven-day police custody on the charge of threatening a Delhi-based businessman and demanding Rs.50 million from him.
Additional Sessions Judge Ravinder Kaur remanded Salem to police custody on the plea of police that he needed to be interrogated for his involvement in trying to extort Rs.50 million from Ashok Gupta in 2002.
Public prosecutor Anita Arora contended that Salem's custody was needed for his voice recording. She told the court that his questioning was necessary to establish his nexus with the other accused in the case.
However, Salem's counsel Arvind Shukla opposed the custodial interrogation and repeated that he had been extradited here from Portugal in 2005 to face the trial only under the extradition treaty with Portugal.
Salem, 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, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Seema Maini had remanded him to 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 attempting to extort money from another businessman Vinay Singh at the instance of Dawood's Delhi-based alleged front man Romesh Sharma.